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  • [MOTHERBOARD]

    【マザーボード】

  • [BROOKLYN, NEW YORK]

    [ニューヨーク ブルックリン]

  • Hey, it's Brian with Motherboard.

    ブライアンだ

  • [BRIAN A. ANDERSON MOTHERBOARD] I've got one word for you: drones.

    【マザーボード記者 ブライアン・アンダーソン】 ドローンとはー

  • Now, you've probably heard a little bit about drones in the news lately.

    無人飛行機のことだ

  • These things fly all throughout the Middle East and the horn of Africa.

    中東や 東アフリカを飛び回りー

  • When they're not spying on suspected terrorists,

    テロリストの偵察や ミサイル攻撃に使われてる

  • they're probably killing them with hellfire missiles.

    実は このドローンが アメリカに上陸した

  • But here's the thing, drones are coming to the States.

    偵察用なので 今のところ 市民は攻撃されない

  • And they're actually already here.

    興味深いドローンだがー

  • They're being used to keep an eye on things, so they're not gonna kill you.

    誤解されている点も多い

  • At least not yet.

    その誤解を解くためー

  • Motherboard has been fascinated with drones for a while now.

    製造者や 販売業者から 話を聞いてみる

  • But it seems there are some misconceptions about the age of unmanned aerial vehicles.

    できれば操縦もしたい

  • To try and clear the air just a little bit,

    取材の行方が 楽しみだ

  • we're gonna head out and talk to some people who are building drones,

    【ドローン 無人飛行機】

  • who are selling drones all over the world.

    ニューヨーク市

  • With any luck, we hope to fly some drones as well.

    ドローン愛好家からー

  • We have absolutely no idea what we're getting into.

    得た映像

  • [DRONE ON]

    もちろん違法だ

  • New York City.

    9・11テロ後 こんな撮影をするのはー

  • Captured by a Swiss drone hobbyist.

    結構 まずい

  • As you're probably thinking,

    みんなが知るドローン映像は きっとこれだろう

  • yes, this is illegal as all hell.

    無人飛行機が撮影した 画素の粗い映像はー

  • And I'll be the first to say that doing this sort of thing

    インターネットで大人気だ

  • over the sight of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil?

    ユーチューブ上では 〝ドローン・ポルノ〟と呼ばれる

  • Probably not the best idea.

    では ロボット戦争の 経緯とは?

  • The drone view that you've seen probably looks a bit more like this.

    答えを求め 我々は世界屈指の 軍事ロボット専門家に会いにー

  • Or more accurately, this.

    ワシントンへ向かった

  • The grainy, pixelated birds eye views that unmanned aerial vehicles,

    私たちはー

  • or UAVs, offer, have become wildly popular on the internet.

    【『ロボット兵士の戦争』著者 シンガー氏】 ロボット革命の中でー

  • Maybe you've heard of the grim footage under it's nome de YouTube:

    生きることの意味を 探っている

  • drone porn.

    プレデターなど 今の軍事ロボットはー

  • How did we arrive at the Robo Wars?

    まだ初歩レベルだ

  • And where are they taking us?

    だが すでに戦時中の 法遵守をどう見直すかなどー

  • To get an idea, we left our Brooklyn offices for Washington, D.C.,

    疑問が浮上してる

  • to meet up with P.W. Singer,

    同時に 国内使用が始まる中 国内法の改正も問われてる

  • one of the world's foremost experts on military robotics.

    人類は 様々な技術が 進化する様子を 見てきた

  • We are

    飛行機を例にとるとー

  • [P.W. SINGER AUTHOR, "WIRED FOR WAR"] wrestling with what it means to

    戦争がどう飛行機産業を 変えてきたかがわかる

  • live, work and even fight through a robotics revolution.

    空飛ぶ機械なんて 昔はSFだった

  • The technology that we're using with things like the Predator or the PackBot,

    しかし ライト兄弟の発明後 数年で戦争に使われるように

  • you know, those are Model T4, those are Wright Brothers equivalents.

    第1次大戦の前半は 偵察用のみ

  • But even with that first generation,

    だが 次第に武器を載せ やがて攻撃専用機を製造

  • we're seeing impact on questions like,

    第1次大戦終結までに 他の様々な用途が見出されー

  • how do we catch up our laws

    商業利用も始まる

  • in war?

    旅行 郵便 医療救助など

  • But also how do we start to catch up our laws domestically

    ロボット工学も 同様の流れが

  • as we start to see that technology move over to the domestic side?

    SFのものが 現実になっていく

  • We're seeing an evolution that is following many other technologies.

    プレデターも初めは 偵察用でー

  • The story of the airplane is, I think, a good illustration

    やがて武器が積まれ 戦闘用機が製造された

  • of where we're at and the impact of war

    今では 他の用途も 出てきてる

  • on an industry that becomes a game changer.

    自律型ドローンの 軍用開発が進んでる

  • The flying machine was once thought,

    目的地を告げ 自動制御装置を 作動させるだけでー

  • is mere science fiction.

    到着するのだ

  • Then, the Wright Brothers make it real.

    大ヒット製品に共通する 特徴も見られる

  • Within a couple years, it's utilized in war.

    小型化だ

  • In World War I at the start, they're not armed.

    去年 ヨルダンで開かれた 世界最大の軍事見本市ー

  • They're just used for observation.

    SOFEXの様子だ

  • Then they jury-rig arm there.

    子供の頃 小型のー

  • Then they start to specially design them to be armed.

    【VICE記者 シェーン・スミス】 模型飛行機で遊んだな

  • And then by the end of World War I, you see all these other roles

    誰かの家に必ずあった

  • being visualized for planes

    今のドローンは それに似てて 撮影や 爆弾投下までできる

  • that soon move over to the commercial sector.

    今年も 小型ドローンの市場を 知るために 再びヨルダンへ

  • Passenger, postal delivery, medical evacuation, you name it.

    [軍事見本市 2012 ヨルダンの首都アンマン]

  • Same exact thing is happening with robotics.

    各国軍が注目するドローンには 50カ国以上 約600の会社が関る

  • You know um, first, science fiction.

    用途は 偵察と攻撃

  • Then, becomes real.

    展示ブースで出会ったのが トルコのドローン会社だ

  • The Predator was originally unarmed,

    名前はファーティフ

  • just used for observation.

    【アトランティスUVS社 ファーティフ・シャンクル】 開発しているのはー

  • Then they jury-rig arm it.

    無人飛行機エアロシーカー

  • Then they specially designed them to be armed.

    監視目的で使用する 一般人もいればー

  • Now, we're seeing all sorts of other roles.

    軍事目的や 追跡捜査で 利用されることも

  • One of the latest developments in militarized drones is autonomy.

    トルコ軍から積載量を聞かれ 「500グラム」と答えたらー

  • Being able to tell your drone where to go,

    「じゃあ超小型カメラとー」

  • and then basically setting the thing on cruise control until it gets there

    「500グラムの爆弾を積めば 自爆攻撃できる」と言うんだ

  • is a game changer.

    軍隊のこんな発想はー

  • At the same time,

    想定外だった

  • drone technology is doing what most any other killer ad does as it proliferates.

    さらに こんな発想も

  • It's becoming smaller.

    私は『ターミネーター』が 大好きなんだ

  • We actually noticed this evolution last year when VICE was in Amman, Jordan,

    いつか本物が見たい 2030年くらいになるかな

  • home to SOFEX,

    実現できるよう がんばってる

  • the world's largest military weapons expo.

    そんな急激な 進歩も 困る...

  • You know when you were a kid you used to have those

    次の男も 変わり者

  • [SHANE SMITH VICE] little model airplanes and then be like...

    やはり発想がすごい

  • You know, somebody's dad would be a real nerd and have the model airplane.

    ドローンは 自律的に動く

  • Now like, it's all model airplane-style drones

    【クリス・バーター デイトロン社】 『2001年宇宙の旅』のー

  • that can take pictures or drop bombs.

    HALみたいにね

  • We want to check out some of these micro drones and size up their market.

    彼の持つ〝スカウト〟にー

  • So we decided to go back.

    HALのような自意識が生まれ 暴走しないことを願う

  • [SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES EXPOSITION 2012 AMMAN, JORDAN]

    [価格 6万米ドル]

  • Drones are becoming hot commodities for armed forces around the world.

    実は スカウトはカナダの エリヨン社製だ

  • Some 600 companies from well over 50 countries are dabbling with drone tech

    エリヨン社の販売代理店が デイトロン社でー

  • for both spying and killing.

    クリスはディーラー

  • And nowhere is this more evident than among the trade booths at SOFEX,

    スカウトは デイトロン社の主力商品

  • where we first meet this guy,

    その大きさから スカウトは 明らかに偵察専用だ

  • a rep for a Turkish drone company.

    最高時速は50キロ

  • My name is Fatih Senkul,

    摂氏-30度から+50度まで 作動できー

  • [FATIH SENKUL ATLANTIS UVS] I'm working for Atlantis Unmanned Vehicle Solutions

    時速80キロまでの 突風に耐える

  • developing unmanned vehicles like "Aeroseeker."

    小型で高性能なためー

  • Some photographers want to use it for surveillance purposes,

    米国の 海洋大気庁や 沿岸警備隊などが使用

  • military issues, and maybe some go track-and-seek missions.

    何かー

  • Some of the militaries, even the Turkish Army [said], "What's the payload?"

    カタログのようなものは もらえないかね

  • They asked, we said "500 grams"

    すぐに連絡するよ

  • "So let's put a very little camera,

    ぜひ

  • and just put 500 grams of bomb

    クリスから サンディエゴにある 本社に招かれた

  • and they will do a suicide attack."

    サーフィンも楽しめるからと

  • That's one of the issues they offered that we hadn't thought of.

    温厚な性格だからー

  • This is something that the military is thinking.

    下手な運転やサーフィン以外は まず動じないよ

  • If that sounds crazy, well,

    スカウトで波乗りを 撮影したことは?

  • then there's this.

    あるよ

  • I am a fan of Terminator

    パイプラインで 撮影したいね

  • and I love these movies.

    ドローンを売りさばく クリスだがー

  • I really would like to see some of them in the future,

    根はサーファーの ドローン愛好家

  • like 2030 maybe?

    軍用以外の 可能性を見出すのはー

  • So,

    ジャスティンも同じだ

  • I'm trying to do my best to see them.

    あのゴーグルが 彼に 未知の世界を見せてくれる

  • Unlike Fatih,

    ドローンのカメラ映像が ゴーグルに送られてー

  • I'm in no rush to hasten the rise of the machines.

    彼は空へ飛び立つ

  • The next guy we meet at SOFEX maybe isn't either.

    この話はまた後で

  • Then, he says something almost as crazy.

    [カリフォルニア州ビスタ ドローン・バレー]

  • To me, drone means you've got something that's operational on its own,

    南カリフォルニアは航空産業のハブで デイトロンのような会社が乱立

  • [CHRIS BARTER DATRON] it's kind of doing its own thing, like a HAL out of a

    いわば〝ドローンの谷〟だ

  • '2001: Space Odyssey.'

    産業地域の デイトロン社でー

  • Here's hoping his robot, The Scout,

    クリスと同僚が 迎えてくれた

  • has no intentions of becoming self-aware like HAL

    まず 購入者について 聞いてみた

  • and refusing to open the pod-bay doors.

    具体的な名前は出せないが 顧客ターゲットなら言えるよ

  • [COST $60,000 USD]

    [デイトロン社のPV] スカウトは 持ち運びできー

  • Now, to be clear,

    使いやすく ホットスワップも可能

  • The Scout is built by Aeryon Labs,

    組み立ては道具いらず

  • a Canadian drone firm.

    数秒のうちに完成

  • Datron, its reps like Chris,

    顧客は 警察官や 戦域にある部隊などだ

  • work with Aeryon on the supply side of the chain.

    1万キロ以上離れた 基地からー

  • Chris Barter's a drone dealer.

    操縦されるより 直に飛ばしたい という連中だ

  • The Scout is the flagship UAV in Datron's suite of tactical robotics.

    多くの攻撃用ドローンは 南部の 空軍基地から飛び立つ

  • Take one look at its size, and it's pretty clear

    不快に思う人もいればー

  • that The Scout is nothing more than a surveillance system.

    歓迎する人も

  • It can fly at speeds up to 30 miles per hour.

    パキスタンでのドローン攻撃に 気がとがめはしないがー

  • It's fully operational from -22 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit.

    無人飛行機を一緒くたに 考えないでほしい

  • And it can withstand wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour.

    スカウトは 武装されることはない

  • It's a compact, capable machine

    監視専用だ

  • and has been sought after by the likes of NOA,

    人に害を及ぼさない 事故がない限りね

  • the US Coast Guard and FEMA.

    完全に自動で飛ぶ 高度 速度 目的地ー

  • Is there anything that,

    【デイトロン社 ポール・ウィルソン】 対象だけ 指示する

  • you know, that you can give me,

    状態に問題なし GPS精度は2.6メートル

  • like a brochure or something like that?

    回転を開始しよう

  • And hopefully we will be contacting you very very soon.

    チェック完了 離陸準備OK

  • Sounds like a plan.

    離陸だ

  • After Chris closes the deal,

    自動でスムーズに飛ぶ

  • he invites us back to Datron's headquarters,

    高度 目的地 撮影対象など 与えた指示を 従うんだ

  • just outside of San Diego.

    他の利用法にも 力を入れてる

  • In addition to drones, he promises

    例えば 石油タンカーが集まる アラスカ州ノームでー

  • there's going to be some pretty decent surfing.

    いつもより早く 港が凍結

  • I'm a pretty Buddhist guy.

    そこでスカウトが 港の周辺を撮影した

  • There's not much that makes me tick out there.

    その映像に 画像処理をかけ 氷のー

  • Um, outside of bad driving and bad surfing.

    厚さを計算 そこから タンカーの航路を決めた

  • Would you ever use a Scout to shoot some pretty gnarly,

    利用法は多いよ

  • big wave surfing footage?

    説得を重ねー

  • Oh absolutely, man.

    スカウトを 操縦させてもらえた

  • That's actually one of my dreams is to take it out to Pipeline or Waimea.

    見上げたスカウトからー

  • So even though Chris exudes the calculating precision

    見下ろされていた

  • of a drone capitalist,

    プライバシー侵害の 危険性についてー

  • he's a surfer dude at heart.

    クリスの考えを聞いた

  • And maybe even a drone hobbyist.

    安全性やプライバシーの権利は もちろん重要だ

  • And he isn't the only one who views drones as being

    だが我々が力を入れるのは 消防士や警察官の 支援なんだ

  • a whole lot more than killers and spies.

    彼らは 建物の内部や裏側の 状況を知る必要が

  • This is Justin Wellender.

    良し悪しの判断は 世論に委ねる

  • Notice those goggles he's putting on.

    デイトロン社はノーコメント

  • Those allow for what's known as first person viewing.

    クリスの望みは スカウトが 人々の日常にとけ込むことだ

  • So suddenly,

    これらの装置は 人間のためにあるんだ

  • what the drone's camera sees, transmits back to Justin's goggles.

    決して敵ではない

  • In effect, allowing him to fly.

    腕前はどう?

  • But, we'll get back to the hobbyist later.

    うまいもんだ

  • [DRONE VALLEY VISTA, CALIFORNIA]

    離着陸も見事 壊さなかったしー

  • Southern California has long been a hub of aerospace R and D.

    上出来だ

  • And today, drone firms like Datron are popping up all over the region.

    傷もヘコミも 作らなかった

  • You can call it Drone Valley.

    少し違う世界を 覗いてみよう

  • Or even the Drone Zone.

    ホビー用ドローンの 最先端だ

  • Datron's campus is in one of these cookie cutter industrial parks.

    数キロ先の 3Dロボティクス社は ドローンの印象を大きく変えた

  • But soon enough, we find the place,

    アランとサムが 社内を簡単に案内してくれた

  • and we're greeted by Chris and two of his colleagues.

    ここで設計するんだ

  • We get down to the brass tax.

    【3Dロボティクス社 アラン・サンチェス】 骨組みやー

  • Who buys a Scout?

    回路などを

  • I will not go into specific customers by name,

    遊び場だよ

  • but I can address customer bases that we will go after.

    こっちで開発してー

  • [DATRON PROMO VIDEO] The Scout is man-packable and offers fast setup,

    製造 テスト 発送などは向こう側

  • ease of use and hot, swappable payload capabilities.

    今は〝ドローン〟という言葉に マイナスのイメージがある

  • The snap together assembly requires no tools

    戦争に使われるからね

  • and total assembly to take-off time could be measured in seconds.

    でも実際には ドローンは 単なる自律型ロボットだ

  • We're targeting the guy, be it the law enforcement officer,

    人ができないことを やってくれる装置だよ

  • be it the squad guy who's out in a combat theater,

    僕らは普通のラジコン飛行機や ヘリを 自律型に変えてる

  • who doesn't want to rely on some guy flying a system in Las Vegas

    うちのオートパイロットを入れれば 既存の機種が自律型になる

  • that's being launched out of an airport that's, you know, 7,000 miles away.

    今では 普通の人でも 手に入る装置だ

  • Unlike the Scout, most so-called "hunter-killer drones"

    我々が考案したこの ツールをどう使うかはー

  • are flown out of airforce bases throughout the American West.

    ユーザー次第だ

  • Many people lose sleep over the thought of these hulking drones.

    買ったハサミで悪さをするかも しれないのと 同じだよ

  • But many others accept the new bug-splat warfare.

    クリスだ

  • I have no qualms when I read the news about a drone strike in Pakistan.

    【3Dロボティクス社の共同創設者 クリス・アンダーソン】 共同設立者でー

  • What troubles me is that

    DIYドローンズという コミュニティを設立

  • people have a tendency to kind of lump in a lot of these unmanned systems

    本業は WIREDの編集長

  • one with another.

    インタビューの直後ー

  • So a Scout, which is unarmed and will probably always be unarmed,

    3Dロボティクスに専念するため 彼はWIREDを辞めた

  • is meant specifically for surveillance.

    今の状況は アップル社に 似てると思うよ

  • Will never be harming any individual.

    初期アップル社は アマチュア集団でー

  • For the most part, unless you know, any kind of accident.

    当時のIBMなどと 全く違ってた

  • The unit really and truly flies itself.

    携帯電話のプロセッサや 無線などの技術が普及したのでー

  • It just waits first to tell it when to take off, how high to go,

    個人用ドローンの 技術が急激に発展

  • [PAUL WILSON DATRON] how fast to fly, where we want it to go and what to look at.

    個人用を誕生させるのは 航空業界や軍じゃなく 愛好家だ

  • All of our status says we're okay, we've got a GPS accuracy of 2.6 meters.

    それに うちの仕事は オープンソースなんだ

  • So we're ready to take off.

    軍や 産業界の技術を開放して ドローンのイメージを変えたい

  • It spins up,

    近くの 性能試験場に案内された

  • it says I've done all my check so now I'm ready to take off.

    2人は クアッドコプターと ラジコン飛行機を持ってきた

  • So I hit take off.

    スカウトなどの プロ仕様との違いは?

  • The vehicle is very good at flying itself

    軽いんだ

  • and it just listens to the directions of how high we want it to go,

    発泡体でできてるから 当たっても痛くない

  • where we want it to go to and what we want it to look at.

    武器は乗らない 重い物は積めないからね

  • We've had a lot of interest in special use cases

    デザインは おもちゃの飛行機だがー

  • like in Nome, Alaska, where they actually had an oil tanker trended,

    ちゃんと飛べる

  • ship oil into Nome.

    高く飛ばすにはコツが

  • Unfortunately, the harbor froze really early in the year.

    これでいいかな

  • What they actually did with the Scout was they took it off

    [価格 500米ドル]

  • and they took photographs of the ice surrounding this harbor.

    フライトは中断

  • And in a post-processing, um...

    近くを 自家用機が 通ったのだ

  • Using post-processing software, they were able to actually

    そこで 連邦航空局の 規定を訊ねた

  • map out the sea ice thickness.

    ドローンへの規定はないから ラジコン機の規定に従ってる

  • So they could navigate this tanker in accordingly.

    だから飛行高度に 限界があってね

  • So it's a pretty diverse system.

    122メートル以内 つまり目視の範囲内なんだ

  • It takes some convincing,

    他の規則もだけどー

  • but eventually Chris and his team let us take this diverse system of theirs

    ドローンは性能がいいから 適用外かもね

  • for a spin.

    [価格 600米ドル]

  • So I'm gazing up at this airborne robot.

    スカウトと似ているがー

  • Only to see it looking back down at me.

    中身は 全く違う

  • I begin to feel the sting of my own privacy potentially being compromised.

    まず3Dの 映像の方がきれいだ

  • And I can't help but wonder if Chris and Datron feel the same.

    ご覧の通り

  • Yes, we do empathize with the security and privacy rights,

    だが スカウトには 耐久性が

  • but we're more so focused on supporting that agency,

    GPS機能や 操作性もあり 偵察や捜索救助に使える

  • supporting that firefighter or supporting that law enforcement officer

    ラジコン改造機のような 3Dとは 天と地の差

  • going into the building,

    3Dのドローンは ラジコンで飛ばせるしー

  • who needs to know either what's happening in that building

    自律型飛行もできる

  • in a tactical type of situation or what's happening on the other side.

    つまり 指定した地点までを 自動操縦にできー

  • So really, it's in the court of public opinion how that gets fleshed out.

    そこからまた 手動の操縦に戻せるのだ

  • Datron doesn't want to talk about privacy.

    ドローンで 遊んでいたいけどー

  • But Chris hopes every day civilians will come to see something like the Scout

    ニューヨークに帰らねば

  • as a friend, not Big Brother.

    取材の出発点だ

  • As we deploy these into real world environments,

    ドローンに感じた危機感は 今も残っておりー

  • what I hope happens is that people attain an understanding

    それには十分な理由が

  • of how these systems are actually working for them.

    楽しいおもちゃでもー

  • As opposed to against them.

    その技術が 殺人兵器として 発展し続けているのも 事実だ

  • How do you think we did?

    着陸は スイッチを下ろす

  • You guys did pretty good.

    プレデターを使って 異国で 一般市民やアメリカ人を焼き殺すのはー

  • You took off and you landed exactly where you wanted it to

    戦争とはいえ 行き過ぎてる

  • and you didn't crash a thing.

    アパートの窓の外を飛ぶ 偵察ロボットもイヤだ

  • You did good. -No blood.

    だが ヨルダンや サンディエゴで見たドローンにはー

  • No blood!

    心を奪われた

  • No blood, no dents, no scratches!

    状況によっては ドローンを 否定できなくなる

  • Now that we've gotten a glimpse of the defense and professional side of this equation,

    去年エリヨン社は反カダフィ軍に スカウトを数台送りー

  • we decided to check out some of the folks

    内戦終結を助けた

  • at the leading edge of hobby drones.

    戦争だけじゃない

  • A few miles down the road from Datron is 3D Robotics,

    研究 映画... 使い道は幅広い

  • a company that represents a drastic culture shift in drone tech.

    宅配ピザとかもね

  • Alan and Sam, two engineers with the company,

    飛行体験だってできる

  • give us a quick run of the lab.

    10年後のドローン業界は 全く予想不可能だ

  • This is where we design all the

    だが この取材で 分かったのはー

  • [ALAN SANCHEZ 3D ROBOTICS] frames, the autopilots,

    ドローンが今以上に 日常生活に入り込むことだ

  • all the circuits.

    もちろん 不安だ

  • Right.

    でも 合法的に使われれば 最悪の状況は免れるのかも

  • And also where we play around.

    CREATEDATE 6/12/13 4:22 PM

  • So this is just where everything starts

    字幕翻訳 日本映像翻訳アカデミー 字幕監修 大石レナ

  • and then the manufacturing, shipping

  • and testing is on the other side.

  • So right now, the word "drone" I feel has a negative connotation,

  • especially with all the wars that have been going on and

  • military drones being the most common use of the word.

  • But really, a drone is a machine that you can,

  • you know, pre-program or class at a level of autonomy.

  • That could, you know, do a job the user can't do or doesn't want to do.

  • So what we're doing is turning regular RC Aircraft

  • or even, you know, helicopter squad copters into autonomous vehicles.

  • With our autopilot, you can just drop it into your existing vehicle

  • and turn it into a fully autonomous aircraft...

  • Um, something that wasn't available for the masses before.

  • Um, and then, what to do with it, that's where the user comes in, you know?

  • We're selling the tool and it's up to the user to come up with a use for it.

  • And you know, you can go buy scissors and do something bad with it,

  • so it's basically the same thing.

  • I'm Chris Anderson,

  • [CHRIS ANDERSON CO-FOUNDER 3D ROBOTICS] I'm the co-founder of 3D Robotics and

  • founded DIY drones in the community that spawned us initially.

  • This is not my day job.

  • My day job is I'm the editor at WIRED.

  • Shortly after taping this interview,

  • Chris Anderson announced his departure from WIRED

  • to focus on 3D Robotics full-time.

  • Well what you're looking at here is

  • what we think of something like, you know, the Apple, you know,

  • from 1977, coming out of the Home-brewed computing club.

  • Amateurs, um, hobbyists, you know, not the IBMs of the day.

  • Technology in your cell phone, the sensors, the processors,

  • the wireless, etc. The fact that this has become cheap and available

  • and ubiquitous is the enabling technology

  • of the personal drone movement.

  • And we don't come out of the airspace and disappear.

  • It'll come-it definitely won't come out of the military.

  • We come out of the hobbyist world,

  • and what you're seeing here is just a bottoms up,

  • open-sourced, community-based attempt

  • to take technology that was once a military, industrial one

  • and democratize it.

  • Make it available to everybody and introduce the word "personal" to drone.

  • Minutes later, we're heading to a nearby field

  • that serves as one of the main proving grounds for 3D's aircraft.

  • Alan and Sam bring along two drones:

  • a small quad copter and a more traditional RC glider.

  • We're curious to see how these guys stack up against the pro model,

  • like the Scout.

  • These things are light.

  • The planes are foam, they hit you on the head,

  • they'll just sort of bounce off. It won't hurt you

  • but they're not, they don't have weapons.

  • They are, you know, can't carry anything very heavy.

  • They're, you know, designed basically to like, radar patrol

  • like toy airplanes but they just have a plane.

  • Yeah, so these things take a while to get some altitude.

  • Bottled it up. Fill it up or should I just...

  • [COST $500 USD]

  • And just like that, our graceful flight is cut short.

  • The guys are spooked by a small private plane

  • passing through our airspace.

  • Which brings us to the Federal Aviation Administration's stance on drones.

  • You know, since the FAA doesn't really have rules for what we make,

  • we just piggyback onto RC Aircraft.

  • And so we're limited by, you know, altitude,

  • we can only fly 400 feet or below.

  • We have to fly within line of sight.

  • Just various rules that are there

  • that maybe we could do away with 'cause our drones are more capable.

  • [COST $600 USD]

  • While 3D's quad copter and the Scout might look similar,

  • their differences far outweigh any similarities.

  • 3D shoots seemingly better looking footage

  • than the Scout that we flew, for one thing.

  • Just compare the two.

  • Then again, what the Scout might lack in visuals,

  • it makes up in durability.

  • And of course the GPS and the slick user interface

  • allow for reconnaissance and search and rescue capabilities

  • that put it above and beyond 3D's systems,

  • which are more or less, pimped out RC Aircraft.

  • We fly 3D's drones the old-fashioned way,

  • with RC controllers.

  • But thanks to 3D's autopilot, these are autonomous aircraft.

  • Meaning that just like the Scout,

  • you can tell your DIY drone where to go,

  • let it get there by itself,

  • and then regain control once it's at point B.

  • Wow.

  • I could see how it would be easy to drop out

  • and kick it in the drone zone forever,

  • but it's time we get back to New York.

  • So we've made it back to Brooklyn.

  • Before this trip, a lot of my thinking about today's drone world

  • came with a certain alarmism.

  • To a degree, I think it still does.

  • And for good reason.

  • When you're playing with toys like these, it can be hard to forget

  • that drone technologies are evolving in large part

  • to being really, really good at killing a lot of people.

  • So if you want it to come back to you, -Yeah.

  • take this switch and pull it all the way down.

  • So I think that rigging that big Predator and Reaper drones

  • to incinerate innocent civilians and American citizens on foreign soil,

  • is too much the stuff of war crimes and extrajudicial killings.

  • And I certainly don't sit well with the thought of a spying robot

  • peering into my apartment window.

  • But when it comes to some of the tactical and hobbyist drone deployments

  • that I saw in Jordan and San Diego,

  • I kind of caught the bug.

  • It's getting harder and harder to argue against the fact that for certain scenarios,

  • drones just make sense.

  • Think about Aeryon giving a couple Scouts to Libyan rebels last year

  • to help aid their fight against Muammar Qaddafi's forces.

  • We all know how that story ended.

  • But beyond the wartime theater,

  • think of the myriad possibilities that drones open up for research,

  • filmmaking,

  • even the next generation in taco delivery.

  • Or I think about a guy like Justin, who's just really, really stoked on flying.

  • My guess as to what the domestic dronescape is going to look like

  • in the next five to ten years is about as good as yours.

  • But having spoken with people like Chris Barter

  • and Sam and Alan out at 3D,

  • I can say with relative assurity that drones are going to become

  • more a part of our everyday lives than they already are.

  • Should we be concerned about that?

  • Absolutely.

  • But so long as these drones are being put to legitimate uses,

  • that's maybe not the worst thing, is it?

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