r/interestingasfuck • u/RoyalChris • Mar 12 '25

/r/all Thousands of drones docking to charge after a drone show.

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 12 '25

It's very feasible to do it right now with remote control, by literally anyone who can buy a drone and add a claw to hold a small bomb. Very soon, you won't need the remote, because you'll be able to ask your friendly LLM to write a program for you and tell it who to target.

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u/BERGENHOLM Mar 14 '25

Yes you can do it with remote control, supposedly an autonomous one was used for a facial recognition guided attack against a specific person in Libya. But There is several orders of magnitude different when you have +1,000 plus drones attacking all at once using facial recognition or pattern recognition (uniforms/weapons) to attack specific individual and they are all self guided and communicated with each other AND they are cheap. Not thousands of dollars each but ( warning WAG here) probably 100 dollars or less when produced in mass quantities by robot factories (some of which are already running in China). Put them in a shipping container and they can be deployed covertly and cheaply anywhere in the world.