Some Finnish people have built a drone-mounted chainsaw and one can ask what could possibly go wrong? It reminds somehow of the Mantrid Drones if anyone recall those. The drone is capable of sawing fir branches and icicles. So it can actually be of use.
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(Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Thursday April 21 2016, @12:29PM
What could possibly go wrong?!
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(Score: 1, Redundant) by mcgrew on Thursday April 21 2016, @05:18PM
You kids seem to have little imagination or knowledge of the real world. Do you know how damned dangerous tree trimming is? I know a guy who does it for a living. He's been injured several times. A chainsaw drone would make his job MUCH safer.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Vanderhoth on Thursday April 21 2016, @06:04PM
LOL, I'm not commenting on how useful this could be, and it certainly could be.
I'm comment on having this thing fall out of the sky on someone, or accidentally ram it into someone with the blade going. I don't know how secure the controls are these days, but I use to have a RC car that, if I forgot to turn it off, would randomly fly off the shelf or do wonky things when I played with it. When I was actually a kid. Turns out we had a local radio station that worked on the same frequency as the remote and when someone drove by listening to the station it would cause the car to do weird things. Of course that was a pretty cheap off the shelf RC, so you get what you pay for.
They're likely much more sophisticated now, but there's a huge potential for danger when skynet takes over and starts ramming these things into people or the battery dies mid flight.
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(Score: 2) by legont on Friday April 22 2016, @01:44AM
It can't work in reality - airframe will not provide enough momentum for leverage. The little branches shown is already stretching the limit of control.
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