The robot helicopters will find me!

Okay, this is totally bad ass but scary at the same time. I mean, we’re all worried about stationary cameras right now. Before long it’s going to be possible for dinner plate sized robots to just be flying all over, looking at everything.

From BBC News, today:

One of the most innovative designs was proposed by a team from Swarm Systems.

Its proposal consists of eight to 10 “dinner-plate sized” quad-rotor helicopters which would be able to fly in and out of buildings.

“There is only so much information you can capture from one vehicle,” Stephen Crampton, the head of the team, told the BBC News website.

Equipped with high-resolution cameras, the swarm will use numbers to its advantage.

“You can get images from different points of view, which is often very important because something you can see from one angle, you can’t from another,” said Dr Owen Holland, another member of the team.

In the novel I just finished writing, there are these little, cigar box sized flying robots who will hunt you down and bug you if you get too far behind on your bills. Robot collection agents. As far as I’m concerned, that’s scarier than a flying robot with a gun on it. It appears we are closer and closer to being there.