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New research considers 'growing' drones
- LoSboccacc 10y agoTl:dr they have an unproven process and a pretty animation and are basically fishing for founding
- adamweld 10y agoDon't forget the clickbait headline.
- harryf 10y agoThe BBC usually flags it's dodgier stories by using single quotes somewhere in the title e.g considers 'growing' drones in this case or http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36700571 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36700571 ... 'second' gator.
- Nzen 10y agoThe research group's publications suggest they 3D print a skeleton with embedded catalysts and release different reactants into the tank through the process to accrete a shell around the necessary electronics. http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/publications.php http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/publications.php The animation seems pure fantasy, some blobs move like flubber and then spontaneously look like a plane.
- monk_e_boy 10y agoEyes are just squishy cameras
- PhasmaFelis 10y ago> An animated video of what it might be like is almost a scene out of Star Wars "Attack of the Clones". There's the irrelevant pop-culture namedrop that every science article has to have for some reason.
- jwatte 10y agoMost of the time of building is not spent shaping the parts, but in assembly, integration, and qualification. I see no improvement in those areas, so the article doesn't really being any real light.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoWhat a puff piece. >Prof Cronin admits that creating even small aircraft out of chemicals "would be very challenging". Hey then goes on to say it might work "some time in the future". Well sure, along with cold fusion and eternal life. "Someday" is not much of a prediction, especially for a business!
- venomsnake 10y agoTell that to Elizabeth Holmes ...
- Aelinsaar 10y agoIf only someone had!
- harshnisar 10y agoPrey by Michael Crichton.
- anotheryou 10y agoWould be interesting to grow anything. Buzzing in with "drones" disqualifies it with the title...