FLYING ROBOTS – WHERE DID THEY BEGIN & WHERE WILL THEY END? (1)

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FLYING ROBOTS WHERE DID THEY BEGIN WHERE WILL
THEY END?
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• Officially, automated drones are referred to as
  UAVs or unmanned aerial vehicles, but to you and
  me, theyre known simply as flying robots.
• Originally designed to be used for military
  purposes, its only in more modern times that
  these flying robots can be seen sitting on the
  shelves of our toy stores.
• How is a flying robot defined?
• Flying robots are basically aircraft with no
  on-board passengers or pilot, and you can see how
  appealing this must have been when thinking in
  terms of warfare, with fatalities being reduced
  to a minimum.

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• When and how were they first used?
• Drones were initially dismissed as being too
  unreliable when they were first invented and
  utilised, and they were rarely used during the
  post, World War II era. It wasnt until much
  later, in 1982, when the coordinated use of UAVs
  in an attack on Syria by the Israeli Air Force,
  initiated a new paradigm in warfare. Ever since
  then, the military in the US have become the
  biggest subscribers to tactical drone warfare,
  with other countries in hot pursuit.
• Many people today, still associate flying robots
  with military applications, and often forget (or
  are unaware) that the concept of vehicles being
  controlled

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• remotely, was the brainchild of none other than
  world renowned Serbian-American inventor, Nikola
  Tesla, all the way back in the 1900s. Tesla
  referred to his first patent for a UAV as
  teleautomation, and the technology he employed
  became one of the foundational principles for the
  modern flying robot.
• How do we continue to use them?
• While drones continue to be used in modern
  warfare, as technology makes it advances, flying
  robots have gotten more intelligent and are being
  used for many other purposes. The quadcopter has
  proven popular among general members of the
  public who are looking for a recreational hobby,
  and today you can pick up a

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• flying robot from any good toy store, often for
  less than 50. These are fun, nifty and
  affordable, and provided their used within the
  FAAs regulations, flying them can be a great
  pastime. Many even have WiFi enabled cameras with
  live aerial video feeds that stream straight to
  your smartphone. The larger, or regular sized
  UAVs, are being used for many important purposes
  as well as recreational, such as to monitor
  wildlife movement (and even track poachers), help
  farmers manage their vast land masses more
  effectively, and enable realtors to provide
  clients with aerial footage of their available
  properties/land, or even give them a fly
  through tour without them needing to be present.

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• What issues do drones present and will they
  always be around?
• Its not hard to imagine some of the privacy and
  security issues that might arise over the use of
  the smaller drones, particularly when in the
  hands of criminals seeking to burglarise a
  property or track someones movements. There are
  rules in place to protect you from their misuse,
  but catching and prosecuting perpetrators is
  incredibly difficult.
• On a larger scale, terrorists have been known to
  make use of drones, and there is always the
  danger of a UAV being flown to close to an
  airport, other aircraft or crowded public spaces.

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• As far as the future of the flying robot is
  concerned, they are certain to become more
  sophisticated and capable of carrying out many
  important tasks as technology advances, both in
  warfare and in other areas of life. In fact, it
  would be hard to imagine a life without them now,
  and it would be even harder to imagine why they
  would ever disappear?
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