They need to make mining drones mandatory, too. Humans have no business being in holes. They are not their holes, they do not belong in them.
I’m looking at you, spelunkers.Sewer drone found footage could make a great horror movie.
This is honestly such an uplifting news that gives me hope for the future.
Prefer this over stories like a 10 year old that raised money to make up for lack of health care or some dystopian thing like that.
Ten year olds operate the drones 👀
“What is my purpose?”
Cue the worship of the “Master” that sends them holy shit a la “Reason” by Isaac Asimov.
Why are you flying the drones though? Just give them wheels and call them robots.
Costs less, is easier to operate, uses less energy, less sensitive parts exposed, can be used in smaller spaces, easier to recover…
Or you could read the article. Wheels ain’t gonna work down there bro.
There is no mention why wheels wouldnt work.
They only mention that flying is difficult because of confined space and changing airflows.
My guess is that the wires/tracks could get stuck in sewage, and it might make it harder to examine the floor better due to how small the drone might be.
I had the idea of a monorail system, but I guess it would have a similar issue in case the surface the rail was attached to got faulty. Might’ve been cool looking though.
I am asking because i know crawler robots exist and are in use since at least a few yearse. The more interesting aspect imo. is the automated image recognition which made huge improvements over the past years. For that it makes sense to have the analysis centralized within reason. E.g. pattern recognition against a larger database. There is local factors too though as materials, construction forms and so on often have historic local differences.
I fail to see, why the wheel needed to be reinvented into flying here.
Some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMC_3ilpHw https://redzone.com/our-technology/solo/
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-depth/crawler-robots-helping-to-prevent-flooding-and-pollution
5th paragraph
Well, that’s a brand new sentence.
Now, the drone-captured data is sent off to contractors at SewerAI, who run it through their AI-assisted algorithms to identify defects automatically.
Now this is the kind of AI shit (pun intended) I can get behind (pun even more intended).
This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it’s sewer blockages or cancer cells.
yep. all we have to do is keep incrementally improving lives with tech, instead of being assholes to each other. Imagine the world, if peace was the most researched branch
Marianne Williamson got laughed at about this in the 2020 US primary, but she was the only person who meaningfully advocated for peace among nations, going so far as to propose a Department of Peace.
Two words I never thought I’d see together… poop drone.
Honestly I though somebody was using drones to throw shit at people below.
Well I’m glad it’s this and not a drone made of poop.
Why do I believe if Mythbusters was still on the air they’d actually try this.
So much for Mike Rowes dirty jobs.
(Jk, those things were always a load of shit anyway.)
eh…
mike rowe’s full of shit. don’t think for a moment any of those jobs were made up though.
Man now I miss cash cab…
It’s basically like saying “illegal immigrants” aren’t made up for Trump. Like, obviously people coming into the country illegally exist, but the dude was just making shit up when it came to the actual numbers.
iirc he was a musician before this gig so… yeah, hard working blue collar stuff rrwwarr ford tuff hemi merika fuckyea
Sounds like a shitty job.
AI is great at doing shitty jobs.
And ai is shitty at doing great jobs
Yeah I’m sure he regrets quitting his job to pass butter
One job that we can happily hand over to robots
I had poop drones on my bingo card!
Have vaginal scented candles been invented?
You are multiple years too late on vagina candles: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop
That’s a bingo! Is that how you say it?
We are all poop drones on this glorious day.
Remind me of that James Bond scene https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9h1zn7l86HA
