From the course: Construction Technology: Industry Snapshot
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Evolution of drones
From the course: Construction Technology: Industry Snapshot
Evolution of drones
- Drones. Now, for many of you, this may conjure up images of Skynet and Terminator and robots rising out of the molten metal and coming to kill you. But the reality is the future looks a lot more like Wall-E than Terminator. Look, I'm here to give you a basic overview of how these things right here, these drones, apply to our incredible industry of construction. Now, we really should be using the phrase UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. That's also another phrase, UAS, Unmanned Aerial Systems. You'll see a bunch of these used interchangeably, but the military has been using the phrase of drone for a long time. When they say drone, they typically mean fixed-wing predators that carry a weapon system. Now, we don't have any weapon systems here. We have cameras, and when we say shoot, we're not shooting any buildings, we're shooting images, or videos. This is really where it all started for me, this little guy. Now, these were RC, or radio-controlled, vehicles, but this is nothing like a…
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