Alarmists might argue that we’re already living in the dystopian future that science-fiction writers have been imagining for decades. Flying robots called drones now number in the millions. They’re spying on our neighbors and infiltrating the airspace of our world leaders. They’re even threatening the safety of civilians, as evidenced by recent near misses with commercial airliners and alpine skiers. But this argument neglects the good that drones can do. Drone advocates worry that the sins of hobbyist pilots overshadow the work of scientists deploying these aircraft to solve climate puzzles, to track airborne pathogens, and to monitor chemical plant operations. “The attention has been so much on a 1-kg vehicle crashing and not so much on its ability to transform and save lives,” says Greg Crutsinger of 3D Robotics, North America’s largest manufacturer of drones. In this collection of vignettes, C&EN examines the confounding case of drones. These aircraft

    Drones are doing science too hazardous, too expensive, or simply impossible for humans


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    Title :

    Rise of the machines


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    2016-02-29




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    Article (Journal)


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