Orwellian drones

Arthur Erickson is co-founder of Hylio Agro Drones, a company that develops and manufactures agri drones in the U.S. He told me in the not so distant future, drones might act like bees. We are putting a lot of thought and effort into making these drones more and more out of sight, out of mind, more and more hands off. So the idea is right now for drones, you're still going out there as the operator, the drones flying itself. It's spraying by itself on a preplanned route that you gave it, but you're still swapping payload swap and battery between flights in a few years. The idea is you're going to have four or five spray drones in a shipping container, self-contained unit. That unit is going to have water totes in it with thousands of gallons of water. It's going to have several hundred, if not thousands of gallons of hot mixed chemicals ready to go as well. This whole unit is going to act as a beehive and it's even going to have little scout drones in it, little camera drones that go out, scout your crops. They look for weed pressure, they look for low population areas and they send data back to the spray drones in this hive, the spray drones will go out and spray what they need to spray on a daily on a weekly basis. What this looks like in a few years is that actually if you're a farmer or even an applicator, instead of going out every day with the drones, you're putting the shipping container hauling in in a semi or something, dropping it off at a farm, and you're giving it some high level directives. So you say, hey, these are the boundaries of this 5000 acre property. Let's say I'm going to come pick you up in three months. And so then the drones are out of sight, out of mind, just blows in away working like a beehive for those three months. You pick it up at the end and then you bring it to the next farm or the next application or what have you. Speaker2: Almost an Orwellian look at the future.