But the current paradigm of having a Skynet-like (or rather, Zerglike) overmind control a set of semi-autonomous drones is too easy to beat — take out the brain and the rest fail, right?
Oren Ambarchi, the Australian musician who lived in New York for a while 20 years ago but is now too rarely seen here, played a detailed, startlingly intense set of drones and pulsations with the drummer Joe Talia, who kept a steady, almost swinging cymbal beat.
In 2013 the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Justice collaborated on a set of rules governing small drones of up to 11.3 kg (25 lb).
Unlicensed flights will be uncharted, the craft unidentified and their operators uninsured.Horses for coursesThe right way to balance safety and innovation is to create a set of rules for commercial drones that depend on their size, use and so on.
A set of five or six drones does the work of one helicopter, roughly speaking, so depending on the volume requested by a company or forestry organization, you may need dozens on demand.
Properly sung, khoomei sounds as though the singer has ingested a set of bagpipes, with a low drone and a high melody issuing simultaneously from the same mouth.
Another Montreal band, Suuns, played a set of brilliant, riveting permutations on the drone.
In fact, his company is working with regulators today and the ASTM standards committee to help define a set of rules and standards around commercial drone usage.
North Korea had displayed a set of what appeared to be very rudimentary drones during a huge military parade held in Pyongyang last July to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean war.
To address these issues, Flirtey is currently collaborating with the The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering, a non-profit research institute, to draft a set of guidelines for the use of commercial drones.
