Watch a man get stunned by the Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone

Engadget ^ | March 7, 2014 | Zach Honig

[Altariel]

You're gonna want to steer clear of this CUPID. The Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone, or "stun copter," can deliver 80,000 volts of pure projectile terror directly into the skin of an ill-intentioned hoodlum. This is serious business for Chaotic Moon, the folks behind SharkPunch and the Pizza Hut touch table. The Austin-based design studio created the flying machine as a tech demo, but CUPID could be quickly brought to production whenever a personal security or law enforcement client sees fit. This prototype unit is based on a Tarot Hexacopter, originally designed to carry a digital SLR for video and aerial photo shoots. With a Phazzer Dragon on board, however, a few modifications made this an entirely different beast.

The objective here isn't to have a copter autonomously wandering city streets, detaining suspects until the police arrive (though the device could theoretically handle such a task). Instead, due to legal requirements, the drone is operated by a pilot, who flies the craft manually, with a second person tasked with triggering the stun gun. Eventually, such a device could be used to aid police in subduing a suspect until officers are able to arrive on the scene. An embedded camera provides a live video feed to operators, who can evaluate the situation before deciding to strike. Since a public park demonstration would likely result in some pretty stirred-up locals, Chaotic Moon invited us up to its Austin offices for a closed-door session during SXSW.

[mrsmith]

Seems farmers could make good use of this.
Scarecrow and varmint deterrant.

[trisham]

"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote."

Caddy Shack (1980)

[nascarnation]

hijack the device

It will happen.

Problem is in a few years there will be 423 different Chinese sourced knock off versions all with different software so knowing which one is heading your way may be a challenge.

[Lazamataz]

Would have been more omininous if they had callied it

Civilian
Undesirable
Person
Intercept
Drone

[bgill]

The government will declare drones as officers of the law as they do with their dogs. You shoot one down, they do the same to you.

Yep. It's us against them.

[Drango]

I’ll put this on my Christmas list.

[Grampa Dave]

"I’d say #8 birdshot would do a number on it."

First use a 4 letter word we teach future shot gunners to use. PULL!

[Nifster]

sometimes it is not a good thing to have more technology

[Admin Moderator]

The moderators have already ordered a couple of these. The mother of all zot machines.

[Organic Panic]

You can guarantee it will be a SEVER punishment if one of these devices are broken. The master’s property must not be damaged.

[Altariel]

Yep. The uppity serfs better not forget their place.....

</sarc>

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

These things need to be turned loose on politicians.

[RKBA Democrat]

Nice! Those look like a heck of a lot more fun than clay pigeons.

[Darksheare]

I got off to meandering and thought: “how about armed antidrone drones?”
It would have a kind of docking clamp on the bottom, maybe a waldo arm to disconnect the battery or maybe even downward firing banks of bangsticks.
Grab hold, tow away, dispose of messily.

[JRios1968]