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If you research the subject, you will find bee drones, wasp drones, hummingbird drones. This was just a lucky catch at a family outing. ATS shill, take your red pill, and pay your bill. l,p Look up biomimetic robots, too.
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. "I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects." Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too. "I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' " That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at political events in Washington and New York. Some suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools, perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.
The CIA was among the earliest to tackle the problem. The "insectothopter," developed by the agency's Office of Research and Development 30 years ago, looked just like a dragonfly and contained a tiny gasoline engine to make the four wings flap. It flew but was ultimately declared a failure because it could not handle crosswinds. Dragonfly "Insectothopter," developed by CIA's Office of Research and Development in the 1970s, had a miniature engine to move the wings up and down. A small amount of gas was used to drive the engine.
Agency spokesman George Little said he could not talk about what the CIA may have done since then. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service also declined to discuss the topic.
RedIce.

Pentagon's new weapon - cyborg flies that are spies * Julian Borger in Washington * The Guardian, Wednesday 15 March 2006
The Pentagon is trying to develop "insect cyborgs" able to sniff out explosives, or "bug" conversations by lurking unseen in enemy hideouts with micro-transmitters strapped to their bodies.
How is this for technology imitating nature? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been funding a project by California-based company AeroVironment to create tiny NAVs or Nano Aerial Vehicles.

The result is a tiny winged robot that looks like an artificial hummingbird that can be controlled like your average RC aircraft. As you can see by the results demonstrated in the video above, improvements are coming along with the propulsion and control testing for the tiny robotic bird. Eventually AeroVironment is hoping to dress the device up to look like a hummingbird as well as fly like one.

The goal of the robo-hummingbird as one could guess would be to have a small discreet surveillance device that could be used perhaps to help uncover enemy combatants hiding in urban settings. Or maybe the tiny flapper could be used in search-and-rescue operations in environments too dangerous for human rescuers to venture.
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We have designed a robotic honeybee to mimic the bee dance communication system. To achieve this goal, a tracking system has been developed to extract real bee dance trajectories recorded with high-speed video cameras. The results have been analysed to find the essential properties required for the prototype robot. Putative signals in the dance communication have been identified from the literature. Several prototypes were built with successive addition of more features or improvement of existing components. Prototypes were tested in a populated beehive results were documented using high-speed camera recordings. A substantial innovation is a visual feedback system that helps the robot to minimise collisions with other bees.
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universitaumlt Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • like i havent seen this shit coming ''dont worry its all to keep us safe from the terrorist'' the real terrorist or the ones in power! youre whole life is based on perfectly constructive lies!! face the fact youre sheep in system . history keeps repeating it self! time fore conspiracy theories or over! WAKUP before its to late its us (general public world wide) against them those in power i wish i was joking but im not do youre home worke and see it fore youre self !!

  • @nordlac Take care of your loved ones and neighbors ! We have spy planes and drones and cameras here. Be aware, and love to you. It is worldwide. peace.

  • In my newer video Hadron collider, I mentioned a smaller and interesting bee drone, I put a link on the side of that one.

  • wHATS WITH THE SHIT MUSIC?

  • It was free, not copyright, and Im jus an aarp with a broken camera and a laptop !

  • That's it ! I'm going to purchase a remote control air plane.....

  • lol, sounds like a blast.

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  • They are spying on people!

    They have technology that could get us off of our gasoline addiction, but they keep us on the back end of technology.

    Watch my fearured video, if u please...

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  • You FILMED your screen with a fucking camera? Use a screen recorder, idiot.

  • "Dragon fly drones are real" LMFAO NO THEY"RE NOT. These models are the work of an art school student in San Francisco several years ago. I contacted him and asked him what kind of software he used to create them he answered me and is on my friends list. What a crock. Dont have such an open mind that your brains fall out.

  • yeah they had dragonfly drones back in the late 70'2 (only recently admitted).. and now they have fly-cams.. shits getting ridiculous and im a lawful person.. but even that dont count for much these days.

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  • It came back a few days later. I am being officially spied on by someone or someplace & think everyone out there defending our planet earth needs to be aware & ready. Is this happening outside of OR? I read they were at peace rallies before, but my house! WTF? I hate the NWO & chemtrails so guess I'm a target? My family has defense connections with aerospace - is that why they want me? Will they kill me? I'm not joking kids. Wish I were. I'm scared for my life.

  • I saw one yesterday in Eugene, OR. It freaked the hell out of me! WTF are they doing watching me? I feel like I need a lawyer.

    I wish I was lying about this. I only got one still frame because it moved quickly then shot up into the atmosphere- I have never seen a real dragonfly do that. It never landed on a plant. Hovered, was too large to be a bug, was too mechanical looking, but had this nasty sharp pointed "tail" that really freaked me out. That tail could've taken out an eye or more!

  • ya the cheesy rock song makes me totally believe this lol!

  • wait i know this music its from some video game.

  • FIRST OFF - Turn down the fucking music. And what?? You have us a still photo of a dragonfly while playing really obnoxious stoner metal head music? The CIA has been very forthcoming about the "dragonfly" drones. I thought maybe you had news. Jesus Christ Almighty, you're a fucking imbecile.

    But I'm wrong. Rock on, DUDE! WAYNE'S WORLD! WAYNE'S WORLD!

    Fucking 19 yr old drug addict.

  • I met a woman caught some drone bugs harassing her due to military connection.

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