Yesterday I got to hang out with Chris of DIYDrones.  We discussed this video and he assured me that SkyNet is still a little ways off.

What I didn’t realize about those videos is that they are, in Chris’ words, one step up from a simulation.  The rooms in which those copters are flying have no turbulence, are surrounded by sensors, all obstacles are clearly marked so that they can be picked out by the myriad of cameras surrounding the room, and all of the sensing and computing is being done by a computer – rather than the drones themselves.

Even if you had an army of robo-drones that could only fly indoors, how cool would that be?  Some of those videos show the little ‘bots lifting and assembling structures.  I would love to have a swarm of these things that did nothing but structures out of legos.

Now, I suppose, I only have to concern myself with the zombie apocalypse.