A new drone shaped like a bird. Chinese developers have shown a new drone made in the shape of a bird.
Such an invention can turn the drone industry upside down.
The drone is able to fly with the help of wing flapping like a real bird and looks the same.
Why not just use birds? Birds fly for free.
They poop on heads though, which is negative points for me.
Didn’t MIT other another Institute created one a few years ago?
Hard to believe that it would have taken till this day for someone to do this, given that birds are the obvious example of flight.
I like how the article starts with China making bird drones and ends with American gun drones. The most American drone.
And the chainsaw drone, the bomb drone, the control drone…
There have been non-drone flapping bird toys for decades(?) Maybe longer? At least since 1969.
r/BirdsArentReal must be going nuts over this.
I bet there going “Guys, real bird is spotted in china, where we wrong?”
But i dislike Reddit to much to go check
ornithopters arent exactly new
It also seems to have fewer purposes. If you are trying to get footage or even just a picture it seems like a normal drone is much easier. Takeoff, landing, hovering seem to be weighted to the quad copter design.
This might be much more efficient
Plane vs helicopter I imagine. Plane should have a longer range, helicopter is better to get footage.
The one thing it has going for it is covert surveillance.
Bird circles 80 times with 15 second gaps of the camera pointed in the wrong direction is all I can imagine. You’d have to swoop the bird directly at the target you wanted to capture the image of unless you are controlling the bird and using a floating camera that you are pointing at the target and rotating separately. Which means the odds of you crashing are going up drastically.
Just use a 360 degree camera with stabilization
Imagine a camera on the bottom of the body instead of where the eyes would be. Now have it circle like an eagle, flapping as needed. Telephoto lens.
Actually the whole point of birds not having their eyes on the body is that they can essentially stabilize their head with their neck so it is not affected by the flapping motion so much.
These would have fantastical scouting capabilities. Pretty alright at being undercover as long as the target isnt looking for them. You could easily storm a few places unexpectedly with a little bit of explosives and these. This is that shit the Wizard and the evil chick were drooling over in Wicked.
If you’re putting explosives on these things I don’t think it matters. You wouldn’t hear the whirl of the rotors until after it got within striking range.
I would assume the visuals are key here. You can’t normally hear birds flapping anyway. These just look like birds until its too late.
It’s the perfect weapon to spy on other countries for them because any bird would stick out like a sour thumb in China so it can’t be used against them. Meanwhile in other countries it wouldn’t even be looked at.
Is this a Mao Sparrow reference or did all their air pollution kill the birds?
wingspan of 1.96 meters.
Not exactly bird like like these other ones though…
How about this one?
Largest living bird species wingspan is 3.6m.
How many species have a larger wing span than that? It’s not that many…
That would look out of place in the majority of the world. Condors aren’t exactly flying over every city mate…
It’s so hard to tell how far a bird is by eye that I and, I think, most people would be easily fooled. Especially in clear weather.
Smaller than bald eagles, I see them all the time
You’re clearly being watched!
Is there like a law of the Internet that says even the dumbest conspiracy theories will eventually come true? If so I want to know the name given how it keeps happening.
you should tell these guys to add it to their list https://archive.org/stream/RulesOfTheInternet/RulesOfTheInternet..txt
Mind control will eventually happen.
I don’t mean like propaganda, that always existed, I mean like actually controlling someone.
You don’t need to feae betrayal if they have a specific program in the brain that will only obey your commands
Any one who tries to make accusations of a person being mind controlled or accusing the government of attemping to mind controlled them will be declared “mentally ill” then detained and be forcibly “treated”, whete in fact, they were being locked up in some lab the mind control technology is used on their brain.
Free-will* would be over. Humanity would be over.
Free-will as in “the brain can make decisions”, not as in “free will vs determinism”.
It’s called Neuralink.
I will literally starve to death living in the wilderness before someone puts a Neuralink in me. If you forced me to choose, I would choose starvation.
@Grandwolf319 @Interesting_news Where are the lizard people
RIP all birds
Birds aren’t real
This seems like it would be ideal for spying on your own citizens. Expect a US version soon - if there isn’t one already, that is.
I don’t think they need to camouflage their cameras so elaborately in the US. US citizens are already painfully oblivious/acclimatized to being surveilled by the government/corporations.
True, but the government loves expensive toys.
Are you joking? The UK is the home of cctv
In contrast to Chinese citizens who are famously free to travel about anonymously and voice any opinion they like about theit government.
If this were announced in the US, given the number of civillian owned guns in America, birds in the US will soon be extinct.
So many ballistic trajectories, so much falling lead.
So… just another Fourth of July celebration?
But instead, it’s 365/366 day of the year, every year?
This is great news! For the firearms industry, that is. 👀
I KNEW BIRDS WERENT REAL
Ornithopters have been around for over 100 years. It’s not really breaking now ground.
I had a toy like this over 40 years ago. Of course I just wound it up and let it go but it flew well.
Birds? You mean drones? Birds aren’t real.
Which is why they are slowly admitting they were drones with stuff like this. “Oh look, we made a drone in the shape of a bird!”. Even though it was a drone all along /s
Pfft. Everyone knows they already make these. Where do you think “birds” come from, anyway? Nature? smh.
Could turn the drone industry upside down
And this would be bad, because now they are just flying into the ground.
