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> The drones zip down curved corridors, mapping them in real time using spinning lasers (LIDAR). At the time, that was science fiction. I think it was the dron
by zimpenfish 4y ago
> The drones zip down curved corridors, mapping them in real time using spinning lasers (LIDAR). At the time, that was science fiction.
I think it was the drone part that was science fiction there, though - the real-time mapping using spinning lasers seems to have been well underway by 2012 (e.g. cf https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6385501 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6385501 from 2012 or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478806/ which mentions ROAMER from 2007.)