Stanford undergraduates learn to make delivery drones - Stanford University News

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Stanford undergraduates learn to make delivery drones
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The lab portion of the course focused on testing the delivery mechanism but also required the students to learn how to build, program and fly quadcopter drones. Each team needed one pilot, who was trained with help from the student club, Stanford ...


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[Dronerboyz]

One thing i really concern about delivery drones is how to avoid the drone being stolen or hijacked by some thief or stupid human. I am really a civilized or morally obligable to society and willing to accept if this delivery drone being introduced to the modern society

 

[Spork]

One thing i really concern about delivery drones is how to avoid the drone being stolen or hijacked by some thief or stupid human. I am really a civilized or morally obligable to society and willing to accept if this delivery drone being introduced to the modern society

My guess is that they will be equipped with IoT devices to transmit telemetry and potentially pics/video back to the mothership (cloud) allowing the company to have at least some information on vandals and thieves.