Topic 1: Drone-Killing Drones
Great video from “Drone Hunter.” AI Powered Drone captures and eliminates drones over no-fly zones, concerts, football games, public addresses by politicians, etc. Karl notes that we hope California deploys these to take down drones flying around forest fires, endangering the pilots trying to fight fires.
Video here . . . scroll down a bit:
https://fortemtech.com/products/dronehunter/
Topic 2: Robots save people from drowning
One bot featured in this story. But toward the end you see there are several competitors. Who knew this is a market with growing competition? And that led us to look at robots that don’t save people: They fight!
Related Links:
https://newatlas.com/robotics/underwater-lifeguard-robot/
Topic 3: Microsoft Stumbles on the Vaccine Software Front
Several companies, including Microsoft, have failed to create great, rock-solid software to track vaccines. We wonder how this task is so complicated that the most successful software companies in the world can’t solve it.
Related Links:
Microsoft getting a black eye: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-28/microsoft-says-vaccine-tools-have-fallen-short-after-dc-snags
Using technology without the data: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/technology/college-coronavirus-tests.html
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