The First Full-Size Helicopter That Takes Off and Lands All By Itself

[Ethnod]

Holy crapola man, this is incredible. This is just incredible tech, very impressive. I cant get over the real time telemetry, amazing how quick its evaluating the terrain. tbh I am stunned, very impressed

 

 

Source:

http://gizmodo.com/the-first-full-size-helicopter-that-takes-off-and-lands-1344277755

[gastew15]

This is really cool! I kind of thought at first this was a troll post, or something, since I didn't think about all by it's self meaning autonomous, but glad I watched the video. Between this helicopter, and google's car I wonder how soon we'll actually be able to have self operating vehicles on a decent scale... Very interesting indeed

[Leonard]

Didn't these guys watch Terminator 3.

[mgsstar]

This is pretty cool. This could be useful for rescue purposes when entering dangerous areas in order to survey the area.

[threadysparrow]

... I could do that... pfft...

[Faceplosion]

Fantastic, autonomous helicopters could greatly help rescue efforts (like the maker of the world's first functional helicopter visualized it doing.)

 

Unfortunately, I can't help but wonder what kind of military applications that can (and probably will) be used for.