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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDrone startup Aptonomy introduces the self-flying security guard
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Drone startup Aptonomy introduces the self-flying security guard
Posted 9 hours ago by Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny)
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Aptonomy Inc. has developed drone technology that could make prison breaks, robberies or malicious intrusions of any kind impossible for mere mortals.
Dubbing it a kind of flying security guard, the company has built its systems on top of a drone often used by movie-makers, the DJI S-1000+, a camera-carrying octocopter.
To that skeleton, Aptonomy adds a new flight controller, and second computer to power day- and night-vision cameras, bright lights, and loudspeakers, among other things.
And more importantly than the hardware features, Aptonomy has developed artificial intelligence and navigational systems that allow its drones to fly low and fast, avoiding obstacles in structure-dense environments, and detecting human activity or faces in the area, autonomously.
A user can open up a browser, get onto the Aptonomy interface, click on a point on a map to send out a drone to a particular location, then watch that flight in real time, or review a recording of it later.
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https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/22/drone-startup-aptonomy-has-created-robotic-flying-security-guards/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=twitter
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Drone startup Aptonomy introduces the self-flying security guard (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Aug 2016
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Avalux
(35,015 posts)1. Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run.
Nothing to worry about as long as you haven't done anything wrong, right?
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)2. like this
Avalux
(35,015 posts)4. Ok now I'm really freaked out.
What could go wrong??
lame54
(35,259 posts)3. Are they bulletproof?
Avalux
(35,015 posts)5. I'm thinking an easy-to-use device that launches tiny missiles would do the trick.
No aiming required.