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As someone who's in the field, I hate how drones and robotics are now associated with anything related to wars. It just kills the passion, and now whenever you mention you work in it, do it, or are interested in it, you get that suspicious look and even a knock on your door.

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Unless you do drones only on your private property, they are inherently a creepy, invasive technology (even though I think they're super cool and like playing with them, too)

Do you think that airplanes, helicopters, and balloons are also inherently a creepy, invasive technology as well? Because from the perspective of capturing imaging data from the air there is really no functional difference between those and UAS...

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