Nothing new here, been done before.
Posted on 09/23/2014 7:22:31 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
A small, hobby-sized robot could herald the pilot of the future. At just 39.7cm (15.6in) tall, PIBOT -- a portmanteau of "pilot" and "robot" and not to be confused with Raspberry Pi-powered PiBot or 3D printer PiBot -- has been trained by researchers at KAIST to fly a human-sized aeroplane.
The robot, presented at IROS Chicago earlier this month, has a video camera built into its "face", with software built in for runway detection and other visual cues. The rest of the buttons, sticks and switches allow the robot to control throttle, braking pitch, yaw, altitude, velocity, and direction, information is fed to the robot directly via wired inputs.
According to the KAIST team, "PIBOT can satisfy the various requirements specified in the flying handbook by the Federal Aviation Administration".
You can see the little guy in action in the video below.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
IMO, this is orders of magnitude WORSE than the driverless CAR!!! What are these people thinking!
Just as long as you can keep it out of the hotel bar the previous evening.......
Nothing new here, been done before.
Uuuummmmm. Why build a robot that can fly a plane, why not build a whole plane that’s a robot?
We’ve done that. Global Hawk, predator, that thing the navy is building. These all can fly with out human input. Just build a flight plan and put it in the computer!!!
what could possibly go wrong?
Can it screw a Stewardess?
More importantly, given today’s cockpit ‘as a politically corrected ‘workplace’, can it screw a Steward?
Will it be able to transmitt sufficient STD’s to meet the demands of the “Bug Chaser” lobby?
Why not just automate the airplane itself? This device, clever as it is, is a useless complexity layer. Eliminate the middleman and build all the systems into the aircraft, including — hopefully — a Ground Control override link.
"In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him."
- Scott
Okay, as long as they aren’t muslim robots.............
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that..................
The airline pilot union will not be happy about this.
That didn’t take long.
HAL, I’ve told you three times to lower the damned landing gear!
Pilot: HAL, why are we flying out over the Indian Ocean instead of Asia?
HAL: Inshallah, Dave, Inshallah......
First ATMs came for bank tellers, then self-service checkout counters came for cashiers.
Next machines will come for what you do: soon ALL of us will be out of work, replaced by automation.
Then all means of production will be nationalized, with all citizens given an equal monthly ration card redeemable for a fixed quantity of government owned robot made and supplied goods and services.
There will then be no way for any of you to better your circumstances. All will have the same miserable lifestyle.
You will be rendered helpless.
But I suspect it need not happen.
The use of technology has often been restricted by government for the common good, and government should not allow workers to be replaced by machines until the workforce is able to offer displaced workers other opportunities.
AND GET THIS: don’t think that these new technologies will automatically result in new kinds of jobs for those displaced workers. This will not happen. Machines will do those jobs too.
And any one of you who thinks your career will be the last to be replaced by machines, realize this:
If you think you won’t be replaced because a machine is far away from doing something as well as you do it, it won’t matter. Most technology doesn’t produce goods and services as well as when done by humans, but the cost savings of technology is so great, that it makes up for the loss of quality (think voicemail menus instead of live telephone operators).
And if you still think you’re safe for now, what will happen to people like lawyers and accountants when your business clients are put out of business by automation (think brick and mortar real estate businesses, for example)?
What citizens on the government dole will be able to afford a trial lawyer? And how many ration coupons will you win if you win your client his lawsuit?
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