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Maybe very small drones with mirrors and cameras and a ground-based robotic tank with a laser cannon.
by arrosenberg 6y ago
Maybe very small drones with mirrors and cameras and a ground-based robotic tank with a laser cannon.
- ping_pong 6y agoThis is an incredibly great idea.
- jadbox 6y agoI love the image of this in my head, but I can imagine in practice that many farms are not on flat terrain where there's direct line of sight [fire] for a central station to flash a lazer pulse. Perhaps if you had many smaller stations with these laser cannons spread about the field and each cannon would coordinate with the drone in the closest line of sight.
- a1369209993 6y agoPretty sure they're explicitly suggesting indirect fire, actually. Base station fires at mirror, and drone uses mirror to reflect laser to target. There might be stability problems, angle-at-which-it-hits-the-weed problems, and more-laser-scattering-due-to-longer-beam-path problems, but line of sight itself should be fine since the drone is up in the air.
- hawski 6y agoIndeed a good idea, but I would only hope it would have a reliable fail-safe, becaue it would be a little reverse GoldenEye.
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- m463 6y agoOr it could just fly upside down. maybe add wheels to set cutting height :)
- dylan604 6y agoThe scene from Spies Like Us always comes to mind when bouncing lasers around. Or the Real Genius as well. So you better be careful using this around corn fields, or we know what can happen.
- extropy 6y agoHeat-ray welding Tripods.
- pragmaticpandy 6y agoSpoken like a true software engineer.