Imminent Rise of the Robot Helicopter Machines!

“With all due respect to truckers, cargo pilots and other professional haulers, transporting goods across vast distances is looking more and more like a waste of our species’ time, opposable thumbs and easily bored brains.” Popular Mechanics says unmanned aerial vehicles like the Snowgoose Bravo, made by the Canadian company Mmist, should be deployed right away to carry our stuff for us. (You know the guys in Mmist’s AV department were pissed when they couldn’t get the rights to “Lunatic Fringe” for that video, right?) But, really, wouldn’t we just use our opposable thumbs and easily bored brains to tie the robot helicopters to our penises? Also reported in PM: the fact that the Department of Defense has mandated that a third of all military vehicles be autonomous by 2015 and the opinion that, “That’s not soon enough.” I say, that’s probably far too soon, and definitely terrifying!