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Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has created an autonomous attack drone. As reported by Bloomberg and NBC News, Luckey’s Anduril defense company is now offering a self-piloted drone called the Interceptor, which is designed to destroy other drones midflight by ramming them head-on.
As photographed by Bloomberg, the Interceptor resembles an off-the-shelf quadcopter on the scale of a Parrot drone, but Anduril has programmed the Interceptor with a specific protocol for defending the airspace around a given building. (As Anduril sees it, that building might be a military base, an oil rig, or a prison.) Given a certain block of airspace to defend, the drone will scan the space using the company’s computer vision software and automatically ram...
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Palmer Luckey is making attack drones now
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