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Old 14th Aug 2011, 10:31
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Zorin 75, some fully autonomous drones are appearing. Their only level of non-autonomy are the high level instructions - go to (location), circle it at some radius at some altitude, take pictures, send back interesting looking pictures. The chain of instructions can include a series of way stops for pictures and other uses. Nobody's "flying" it with a wheel or joystick. It's more typewriter driven and handles all the details of avigation itself. This hit the news fairly recently - amidst some apocalyptic rhetoric and reference to the Terminator films.
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