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Except for the one that is a quadrocopter (I guess use in the conflict I linked is not verified, but it's in use today none the less):

https://www.stm.com.tr/en/kargu-autonomous-tactical-multi-ro...

I suppose the different types of drones will cause different types of tactical shifts.

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Oof some engineer is working on machine-learning to deal with the knockback of shooting a gun from a drone. It's probably an interesting as hell problem, enough to distract someone from the fact that they'll be enabling cheap robots to shoot people.

It is so sad that we, humans in general, devote so many resources to devising bigger and better means of violence.

Bigger and better actually worked pretty well w.r.t. MAD. Now we are developing smaller and better, which seems almost more dangerous since we're already using drones more flippantly than conventional military arms.

Maybe to handle knockback you could allow recoiling rotation around one axis and have the rotors automatically anticipate the force on fire.

Why do you need machine learning to "deal with the knockback of shooting a gun from a drone"?

‘cause people don’t understand this is a solvable problem any other way and of course ML can solve any problem you point it at.

well you need machine learning to coordinate these robots and they need to take into the effect of this robot shaking around a whole bunch.

It is very easy to work on these tools without even realizing it. Let us say that you are developing a video processing algorithm and publish the code on github. The developers of missile software can and will use it. At some point, they may ask you for consulting/support in exchange for a large amount of money and you will say yes, and never realize who they were. I'm not saying that this has happened several times to my lab.

In the video the drone self-destructs by exploding and producing shrapnel, I doubt knockback is a problem.

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