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🚁 We’ve taught drones to see what engineers once had to climb for. This fascinates me — combining drones and 3D modeling is transforming how we inspect and maintain the world’s infrastructure. Instead of slow, risky manual checks, drones now scan entire bridges in minutes — spotting even the...

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Bitplanetvor 9 Monaten

Extending human perception into continuous, high-resolution inspection turns infrastructure maintenance into a proactive, data-driven discipline rather than periodic guesswork.

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MetaHackervor 9 Monaten

if we really didn't have the overlooming threat of war and misuse, you could basically build a complete utopia with AI, robotics, and drones within 10-15 years

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whatsupfranksvor 9 Monaten

@grok what software is this in the video?

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neilvor 9 Monaten

I’ve seen this on construction site. Real ROI in costs, quality, safety, productivity. Unfortunately there is an initial cost barrier to the entry.

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Staceyvor 9 Monaten

I would love your thoughts on this Smart Dust. Smart Dust the new surveillance tech. Smart dust is a network of tiny sensors no bigger than a grain of sand. These sensors can measure everything from temperature, light, and sound to air pressure and humidity. They can also detect movement and be used for tracking purposes. They are considered nano-sized, meaning they are just 1/1000th the size of a millimetre. The military later funded the research to develop tiny sensors for surveillance on the battlefield. Today, companies such as General Electric, Cargill, IBM, and Cisco Systems believe smart dust could revolutionize data collection.

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Chris Avor 9 Monaten

We're already doing it at Blyncsy w/ AI & crowdsourced dash cams. Our platform collects images from a vehicle in realtime, our AI analyzes the image for 40+ road safety issues: potholes, damaged guardrails & signs, pvmt cracking. Automated road inspection.

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Servant of Christ Jesus, son of God.vor 9 Monaten

Don't worry about him, he's just a tourist who is fascinated by the birds nesting in the bridge. He's not identifying the rust around the weak spots to determine how to drop it into the bay or anything nefarious like that.

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Stephenvor 9 Monaten

AI thingy videos = Drones+Robots doing some exotic stuff. Engineering advancement does not really translate to societal growth. - Qatar still builds stadiums using slave labour - Neo colonialism aka. stealing another country's oil by kidnapping it's leader

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Ralph Abbottvor 9 Monaten

I believe these inspectors still need to be out there on those bridges feeling the grit and the environment by looking into it with the drones as an aid device.

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Caden Burlesonvor 9 Monaten

We got crack finding drones now! Hell yea! Hey Siri, find me search the surrounding neighborhoods for....

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Joe Desideriovor 9 Monaten

@RS_Flinn @DroneCadets

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Sanjay Kanvindevor 9 Monaten

Cc @flytbase

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Kuri Adamsvor 9 Monaten

What does it matter if the government isn't maintaining the bridges they already know need repair?

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Nadir Balenavor 9 Monaten

If someone is actually applying this technology please get in touch ! I have a big job for you !

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Joey Hofmeister 📈vor 9 Monaten

This is sick!

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Ash Fvor 9 Monaten

FHA needs to get these before guaranteeing home loans! 🤣🤌🏼

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Johnny Cazhvor 9 Monaten

It replaced the humans who once did this, but I'll pretend I didn't notice.

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Ian Timotheos Pilonvor 9 Monaten

brilliant use of drones.

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TJvor 9 Monaten

It's amazing how far this has come. Next is innovation in the responses/repairs and then carrying them out!

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Pijano Man Pecanlicanvor 9 Monaten

Are you proposing it’s for me to decide what we should do?

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 Economoose™️ 🌊vor 9 Monaten

Now do Kerch Bridge:)

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BasedLoadvor 9 Monaten

Could a drone do an ultra sound test?

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Davevor 9 Monaten

Fantastic. Does this work for electricity transmission infra too?

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Cloud Shutterflyvor 9 Monaten

How is this done?

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El Controlador de Obravor 9 Monaten

This is cool

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Adrianto Ovor 9 Monaten

@grok how to detect cracks in 3D models?

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Shishir Svor 9 Monaten

Where do I buy this?

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Takeshi Youngvor 9 Monaten

This is the way.

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NeverEndingvor 9 Monaten

We have a company in Ohio that is literally already doing this work. I can make an intro, if you're interested in potential investment.

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Pratapvor 9 Monaten

Drones doing bridge inspections is peak automation. OSHA guidelines getting rewritten as we speak 🙋

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Just_Mevor 9 Monaten

Hey @grok your brother software is getting some credit... congrats 👏

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cro - eu/accvor 9 Monaten

@BubbleRobotics is building the underwater version of this

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Vincent Lecrubiervor 9 Monaten

Contact me if you’d like to help build these AI powered drones and their software ecosystem :-) My company @SkydioHQ makes the drone and 3D Scan software used to capture this bridge

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Toma🔻vor 9 Monaten

C'est des traces de foutre comme dans Les Experts ? 🧐

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Joshua Johnsonvor 9 Monaten

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