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China just turned the night sky into a masterpiece of precision and intelligence. 🌌 What struck me most about this is how seamlessly innovation turns into art. A drone show in Chongqing just broke the Guinness World Record with 11,787 synchronized drones, creating breathtaking 3D animations that looked closer to CGI than real life. No human pilots. No delays. No crashes. Every movement guided by AI and GPS, choreographed with perfect timing. To me, this is far more than a light show. It’s a glimpse into how technology, creativity, and coordination can merge to shape a new era of expression and innovation. When intelligence takes flight, it doesn’t just illuminate the sky — it redefines what’s possible. Could this be the moment where technology begins to turn the world itself into its stage? #AI #Innovation #Technology #Drones #Automation #Creativity #China #Engineering #FutureOfWork #DigitalArt Credits: longliveai
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China just turned the night sky into a masterpiece of precision and intelligence. 🌌 What struck me most about this is how seamlessly innovation turns into art. A drone show in Chongqing just broke the Guinness World Record with 11,787 synchronized drones, creating breathtaking 3D animations that looked closer to CGI than real life. No human pilots. No delays. No crashes. Every movement guided by AI and GPS, choreographed with perfect timing. To me, this is far more than a light show. It’s a glimpse into how technology, creativity, and coordination can merge to shape a new era of expression and innovation. When intelligence takes flight, it doesn’t just illuminate the sky — it redefines what’s possible. Could this be the moment where technology begins to turn the world itself into its stage? #AI #Innovation #Technology #Drones #Automation #Creativity #China #Engineering #FutureOfWork #DigitalArt Credits: longliveai

Pascal Bornet

2,491,257 views • 7 months ago

This is horrifying An AI drone company is creating extremely small drones that will be used to “kill mosquitoes” but nobody actually believes they are going to be used for mosquitoes. People believe this technology will be used for war purposes and against us There is real reason to be concerned, the company has significant ties to Peter Thiel and even had Sam Altman as their President for awhile The likelihood of these new drones using sound to kill mosquitoes I’d say is pretty low, this sounds like a classic bait and switch Ohh and let’s not forget, AI drones are already being used for way right now and killing people. Imagine of a fleet of these tiny ones has the same capabilities and what they could do to your public
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This is horrifying An AI drone company is creating extremely small drones that will be used to “kill mosquitoes” but nobody actually believes they are going to be used for mosquitoes. People believe this technology will be used for war purposes and against us There is real reason to be concerned, the company has significant ties to Peter Thiel and even had Sam Altman as their President for awhile The likelihood of these new drones using sound to kill mosquitoes I’d say is pretty low, this sounds like a classic bait and switch Ohh and let’s not forget, AI drones are already being used for way right now and killing people. Imagine of a fleet of these tiny ones has the same capabilities and what they could do to your public

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Sky Wee

58,239 views • 10 months ago

China is turning fire trucks into drone launch systems. And that is a much bigger shift than it sounds. What interests me here is not just the hardware. It is the new logic of emergency response. Instead of relying only on ladders and human entry, these systems pair fire trucks with drones that can reach high-rise fire zones quickly, fly into smoke, and send live intelligence back to crews. That is what is new. The truck is no longer just transport. It becomes a mobile aerial response base. And that matters because in dense high-rise environments, access is often the real bottleneck. To me, this is where the story gets interesting. This is not just about fighting fires better. It is about changing who gets exposed to danger first. → drones go where ladders cannot → commanders get visibility earlier → crews make faster decisions → fewer firefighters enter blind conditions That is a serious innovation. And it opens up important use cases: → faster high-rise reconnaissance → targeted suppression from outside upper floors → better coordination in smoke-heavy environments → safer response where humans cannot reach quickly That is why I would not dismiss this as just another drone demo. It is a glimpse of what emergency response looks like when robotics, data, and frontline operations finally converge. What do you think matters more here: faster firefighting, or the fact that robots may now take the first risk instead of humans? #AI #Robotics #Drones #Firefighting #Innovation #EmergencyResponse #SmartCities #FutureOfWork #Technology
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China is turning fire trucks into drone launch systems. And that is a much bigger shift than it sounds. What interests me here is not just the hardware. It is the new logic of emergency response. Instead of relying only on ladders and human entry, these systems pair fire trucks with drones that can reach high-rise fire zones quickly, fly into smoke, and send live intelligence back to crews. That is what is new. The truck is no longer just transport. It becomes a mobile aerial response base. And that matters because in dense high-rise environments, access is often the real bottleneck. To me, this is where the story gets interesting. This is not just about fighting fires better. It is about changing who gets exposed to danger first. → drones go where ladders cannot → commanders get visibility earlier → crews make faster decisions → fewer firefighters enter blind conditions That is a serious innovation. And it opens up important use cases: → faster high-rise reconnaissance → targeted suppression from outside upper floors → better coordination in smoke-heavy environments → safer response where humans cannot reach quickly That is why I would not dismiss this as just another drone demo. It is a glimpse of what emergency response looks like when robotics, data, and frontline operations finally converge. What do you think matters more here: faster firefighting, or the fact that robots may now take the first risk instead of humans? #AI #Robotics #Drones #Firefighting #Innovation #EmergencyResponse #SmartCities #FutureOfWork #Technology

Pascal Bornet

96,668 views • 4 months ago

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518,119 views • 8 months ago

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ZELENSKYY ON IRAN: "Although Ukrainians never threatened Iran, the Iranian regime chose to become Putin's accomplice and supplied him with "shahed" drones, and not only the drones themselves, but also the technologies. Iran also provided other weapons to Russia. Over the course of this full-scale war, the Russians have used more than 57,000 shahed-type attack drones against Ukraine - against our people, against our cities, and against our energy infrastructure. Other nations have also suffered from this terror. Therefore, it is fair to give the Iranian people a chance to rid themselves of a terrorist regime - to rid themselves of it and to guarantee security for all nations that have suffered from terror originating in Iran."

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The Pentagon is negotiating the purchase of Ukrainian interceptor drones. Just like us, they want to shoot down Iranian Shahed drones without wasting missiles that cost millions of dollars. Our Community helped bring interceptor drones into existence and scale this technology. We believed it was possible when most people thought the idea was crazy. And here we are — another video showing successful interceptions, including Shaheds equipped with cameras (spoiler: it didn’t help them). But you can help the Ukrainian Armed Forces shoot down even more Russian and Iranian drones. Donate and help Ukraine! PayPal (For non-lethal purchases): [email protected]

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47,570 views • 5 months ago

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.Neros Technologies just won a $500M-ceiling US Army contract for its Archer FPV drones. CEO Soren Monroe-Anderson (Soren Monroe-Anderson) on why scaling drone production is the hard part and why very few are doing it well. "I think a lot of drone companies or just a lot of companies in the defense tech space sort of claim that they're ready to produce at scale when they're not, like they haven't proved it... And so a lot of the IP is how we build drones, how we test drones, how we design drones for testing, for reliability, for manufacturability, all of the data we've collected is we've built tens of thousands of drones. These are things that you can't just like drop in and replicate... Like it's really not that hard to put together an FPV drone and go demo it and even get like a contract off of that. It's consistent scale production that's hard."

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17,606 views • 1 month ago

DAVID SACKS ON THE AI RACE: "The US is currently in an AI race, and our chief global competition is China, obviously. They're the only other country that has the talent, the resources, and the technology expertise to basically beat us in AI. And I think whoever wins this AI race, that's going to have tremendous ramifications for both our economy and our national security. Clearly, we want the US to be the winner, just like we were with the internet, and every other technology revolution before that […] We know that to win this AI race, we have to be the most innovative. You can't regulate your way just to beating your competitor. You have to out-innovate them. And we know that in the United States, the innovation comes from the private sector, not the government. So we have to do everything we can to help our companies win, to help them be innovative, and that means getting a lot of red tape out of the way… We have to have the most AI infrastructure in the US. It has to be the easiest place to build it. All of the new data centers that are going in, they require tremendous power, so getting ahead of the curve on energy, making sure we stand up all of this new infrastructure we're going to need to basically produce these AI factories… We want the US technology stack to dominate globally. We want to be the partner of choice for the whole world… I think everyone in Silicon Valley understands that the way that you win a technology race is to have the biggest ecosystem […] You just want everybody to be building on top of your technology stack, and that's what we want for the United States." David Sacks w/Marc Benioff Dreamforce
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DAVID SACKS ON THE AI RACE: "The US is currently in an AI race, and our chief global competition is China, obviously. They're the only other country that has the talent, the resources, and the technology expertise to basically beat us in AI. And I think whoever wins this AI race, that's going to have tremendous ramifications for both our economy and our national security. Clearly, we want the US to be the winner, just like we were with the internet, and every other technology revolution before that […] We know that to win this AI race, we have to be the most innovative. You can't regulate your way just to beating your competitor. You have to out-innovate them. And we know that in the United States, the innovation comes from the private sector, not the government. So we have to do everything we can to help our companies win, to help them be innovative, and that means getting a lot of red tape out of the way… We have to have the most AI infrastructure in the US. It has to be the easiest place to build it. All of the new data centers that are going in, they require tremendous power, so getting ahead of the curve on energy, making sure we stand up all of this new infrastructure we're going to need to basically produce these AI factories… We want the US technology stack to dominate globally. We want to be the partner of choice for the whole world… I think everyone in Silicon Valley understands that the way that you win a technology race is to have the biggest ecosystem […] You just want everybody to be building on top of your technology stack, and that's what we want for the United States." David Sacks w/Marc Benioff Dreamforce

Ron Pragides 

231,781 views • 10 months ago

Today we are at the first German-Ukrainian joint venture — which is already producing drones for the Ukrainian Army. Today I received the first jointly made attack drone. We saw the production line and the first flight of the drone. This is modern Ukrainian technology. Battle-tested. Powered by AI. It will strike, it will scout, it will protect our soldiers. And this year ten thousand drones manufactured here will go to Ukraine and strengthen our forces. ​Ukraine has long worked to open coproduction lines in Europe. And today — this line is operational. First in Germany. This is a real result. Overall, by the end of the year we will open 10 joint ventures producing Ukrainian drones. ​I thank Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Government of Germany, Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius personally, and the German people. Ukraine is always ready to share the experience we got in defending life.
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Today we are at the first German-Ukrainian joint venture — which is already producing drones for the Ukrainian Army. Today I received the first jointly made attack drone. We saw the production line and the first flight of the drone. This is modern Ukrainian technology. Battle-tested. Powered by AI. It will strike, it will scout, it will protect our soldiers. And this year ten thousand drones manufactured here will go to Ukraine and strengthen our forces. ​Ukraine has long worked to open coproduction lines in Europe. And today — this line is operational. First in Germany. This is a real result. Overall, by the end of the year we will open 10 joint ventures producing Ukrainian drones. ​I thank Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Government of Germany, Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius personally, and the German people. Ukraine is always ready to share the experience we got in defending life.

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227,764 views • 6 months ago

The Chinese are advancing on 6th-generation fighters, but I have serious doubts about whether this is truly the right path. Recently, the Turkish company Baykar flew two combat drones that operate in perfect synchronization, guided from a ground base. They executed coordinated maneuvers autonomously and are already capable of conducting BVR (Beyond Visual Range) engagements. The Kızılelma became the first drone to achieve an autonomous kill with an air-to-air missile guided by its own AESA radar. This level of Turkish progress, combined with the kill web integration that Chinese drones are demonstrating, isn’t it a strong indication that manned 6th-generation fighters might be an extraordinarily expensive fantasy? I’ll go further: some drones are already reaching speeds above Mach 3.5 - more than double those of the leading current manned fighters. I’m talking about drones capable of high-speed coordinated operations, fully autonomous, with integrated and shared weapon systems, flying at altitudes far higher than conventional fighters, and employing systems similar to Aegis. How much longer until these drones take off in large swarms, equipped with ultra-modern sensors controlled by AI and armed with long-range air-to-air missiles? How could a human pilot, even at the height of adrenaline, make faster and more accurate decisions, involving multiple scenarios and factors, than an AI commanding a pack of smaller, more agile drones operating at different altitudes? We are entering the real competition between man and machine. Even if a pilot in a 6th-generation fighter has control over slave drones and an entire Aegis-like kill web, what is the point of having him there if everything can be done autonomously, more safely, more cheaply, and in far greater numbers? Some argue that the human pilot offers advantages in unpredictable scenarios where today’s AI still fails, and I agree. But I’m not talking about current AI: I’m talking about the AI of 2030–2040, far more advanced than anything we know today. Geran drones equipped with air-to-air missiles prove that air combat drones can be extremely low-cost, while the Turkish tests show, in a far more sophisticated way, that drones designed for air-to-air missions are evolving much faster than 6th-generation aircraft, whose development and production costs are exorbitant. When we put together the Geran, the Kızılelma, and the drone kill web integration the Chinese are achieving, the question arises: is the future really manned 6th-generation fighters, or much cheaper drones produced in greater numbers, better protected, and more capable? Wouldn’t it be smarter to invest in well-equipped autonomous 6th-generation drones rather than treating them merely as wingmen? It seems that keeping a human pilot on board has more to do with ethical principles and preserving our role than with genuine operational necessity. And how would humanity react to the constant killing of human beings by AI-guided drones? Drones will be cheaper to develop, easier to produce, and possibly more agile than conventional fighters, even 6th-generation ones. In cost-benefit terms, the price of a single 6th-generation fighter could buy dozens of equivalent or even superior drones. This would save hundreds of billions of dollars and could put whoever adopts the strategy a step ahead. The Chinese, by the way, are very well positioned in this race, with HALE drones already armed with air-to-air missiles and integrated into an extensive kill web, which I will describe in detail soon.
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The Chinese are advancing on 6th-generation fighters, but I have serious doubts about whether this is truly the right path. Recently, the Turkish company Baykar flew two combat drones that operate in perfect synchronization, guided from a ground base. They executed coordinated maneuvers autonomously and are already capable of conducting BVR (Beyond Visual Range) engagements. The Kızılelma became the first drone to achieve an autonomous kill with an air-to-air missile guided by its own AESA radar. This level of Turkish progress, combined with the kill web integration that Chinese drones are demonstrating, isn’t it a strong indication that manned 6th-generation fighters might be an extraordinarily expensive fantasy? I’ll go further: some drones are already reaching speeds above Mach 3.5 - more than double those of the leading current manned fighters. I’m talking about drones capable of high-speed coordinated operations, fully autonomous, with integrated and shared weapon systems, flying at altitudes far higher than conventional fighters, and employing systems similar to Aegis. How much longer until these drones take off in large swarms, equipped with ultra-modern sensors controlled by AI and armed with long-range air-to-air missiles? How could a human pilot, even at the height of adrenaline, make faster and more accurate decisions, involving multiple scenarios and factors, than an AI commanding a pack of smaller, more agile drones operating at different altitudes? We are entering the real competition between man and machine. Even if a pilot in a 6th-generation fighter has control over slave drones and an entire Aegis-like kill web, what is the point of having him there if everything can be done autonomously, more safely, more cheaply, and in far greater numbers? Some argue that the human pilot offers advantages in unpredictable scenarios where today’s AI still fails, and I agree. But I’m not talking about current AI: I’m talking about the AI of 2030–2040, far more advanced than anything we know today. Geran drones equipped with air-to-air missiles prove that air combat drones can be extremely low-cost, while the Turkish tests show, in a far more sophisticated way, that drones designed for air-to-air missions are evolving much faster than 6th-generation aircraft, whose development and production costs are exorbitant. When we put together the Geran, the Kızılelma, and the drone kill web integration the Chinese are achieving, the question arises: is the future really manned 6th-generation fighters, or much cheaper drones produced in greater numbers, better protected, and more capable? Wouldn’t it be smarter to invest in well-equipped autonomous 6th-generation drones rather than treating them merely as wingmen? It seems that keeping a human pilot on board has more to do with ethical principles and preserving our role than with genuine operational necessity. And how would humanity react to the constant killing of human beings by AI-guided drones? Drones will be cheaper to develop, easier to produce, and possibly more agile than conventional fighters, even 6th-generation ones. In cost-benefit terms, the price of a single 6th-generation fighter could buy dozens of equivalent or even superior drones. This would save hundreds of billions of dollars and could put whoever adopts the strategy a step ahead. The Chinese, by the way, are very well positioned in this race, with HALE drones already armed with air-to-air missiles and integrated into an extensive kill web, which I will describe in detail soon.

Patricia Marins

60,728 views • 7 months ago

Inventory drone scanning your shelves! 📡 Corvus Robotics is creating autonomous drones for warehouse inventory management. These drones navigate without GPS to scan towering rows of pallets continuously. These drones operate alongside human workers, and forklifts, even in darkness, providing accurate and frequent inventory checks that reduce operational inefficiencies. 🔦 Equipped with 14 cameras and a post-processing system, the drone scans barcodes, records product locations, and integrates with warehouse management systems to identify and resolve discrepancies. Unlike traditional systems requiring extensive setup, Corvus drones use an “infrastructure-free” approach, needing only simple docks and a quick mapping step to be operational in a week. Their drones address a common industry pain point: lost inventory. By enabling weekly or even faster inventory cycles, they eliminate the need for infrequent, error-prone manual checks that often disrupt operations. Worth mentioning that they are part of the '18 Y Combinator batch! 🪙 Congrats Jackie Wu, Mohammed Kabir, Andrew Burer, and team! ~~~ ♻️ to help 1 robot find a new workplace.
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Inventory drone scanning your shelves! 📡 Corvus Robotics is creating autonomous drones for warehouse inventory management. These drones navigate without GPS to scan towering rows of pallets continuously. These drones operate alongside human workers, and forklifts, even in darkness, providing accurate and frequent inventory checks that reduce operational inefficiencies. 🔦 Equipped with 14 cameras and a post-processing system, the drone scans barcodes, records product locations, and integrates with warehouse management systems to identify and resolve discrepancies. Unlike traditional systems requiring extensive setup, Corvus drones use an “infrastructure-free” approach, needing only simple docks and a quick mapping step to be operational in a week. Their drones address a common industry pain point: lost inventory. By enabling weekly or even faster inventory cycles, they eliminate the need for infrequent, error-prone manual checks that often disrupt operations. Worth mentioning that they are part of the '18 Y Combinator batch! 🪙 Congrats Jackie Wu, Mohammed Kabir, Andrew Burer, and team! ~~~ ♻️ to help 1 robot find a new workplace.

Lukas Ziegler

11,340 views • 1 year ago

You asked for it, we delivered. The full keynote is live. In this keynote, we unveil our enhanced vision to become the World’s Ears for AI & Robotics. We are creating the world’s first decentralized infrastructure for real-world audio intelligence. Check-out our new website: Start training Voice AI now & get rewarded: From noise-level mapping to multilingual voice data and the future of live audio streams, Silencio is building the critical audio data layer that will power foundation models, embodied AI, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.
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You asked for it, we delivered. The full keynote is live. In this keynote, we unveil our enhanced vision to become the World’s Ears for AI & Robotics. We are creating the world’s first decentralized infrastructure for real-world audio intelligence. Check-out our new website: Start training Voice AI now & get rewarded: From noise-level mapping to multilingual voice data and the future of live audio streams, Silencio is building the critical audio data layer that will power foundation models, embodied AI, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.

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176,313 views • 11 months ago

This is what technological diffusion looks like in China. In Hebei, two heavy-lift drones are being used in tandem to carry tower materials for a 220 kV power transmission line project through complex mountain terrain. Each drone can lift 325 kg. Together, 650 kg. Hundreds of tons of materials can be delivered to mountain construction sites in a single day. The point is not just drones. The point is that advanced tools are no longer trapped in showcase cities or elite industries. They are entering power grids. Mountains. Construction sites. Ecologically fragile areas. Ordinary infrastructure work. This is how China upgrades itself: not by turning technology into luxury, but by turning it into productivity. Even in remote, difficult terrain, engineering keeps moving. Drones fly. Workers build. The grid expands. The country becomes more connected.
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This is what technological diffusion looks like in China. In Hebei, two heavy-lift drones are being used in tandem to carry tower materials for a 220 kV power transmission line project through complex mountain terrain. Each drone can lift 325 kg. Together, 650 kg. Hundreds of tons of materials can be delivered to mountain construction sites in a single day. The point is not just drones. The point is that advanced tools are no longer trapped in showcase cities or elite industries. They are entering power grids. Mountains. Construction sites. Ecologically fragile areas. Ordinary infrastructure work. This is how China upgrades itself: not by turning technology into luxury, but by turning it into productivity. Even in remote, difficult terrain, engineering keeps moving. Drones fly. Workers build. The grid expands. The country becomes more connected.

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