Explore the world beyond headlines with amazing videos. Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:53:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 https://documentary.net/wp-content/themes/documentary/img/documentary-logo.png 337 17 Explore the world beyond headlines with amazing videos. https://documentary.net/video/the-drone-pilots-making-the-world-a-better-place/ https://documentary.net/video/the-drone-pilots-making-the-world-a-better-place/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:32:01 +0000 http://documentary.net/?post_type=assets&p=12218

Meet the people pioneering new careers as drone pilots, from the South African savannah to the building sites of California. Drones are the unmanned miniaturized aircraft of the future. Today these planes and helicopters are on the verge of revolutionizing the civilian workplace. From agriculture to industry, the specialized skills of the people who fly them are in ever higher demand. Ready-to-fly drones are now available from around $1,000. Some have been developed from radio-controlled model aeroplanes. But their ability at low cost to operate autonomously comes from the use of commodity electronics developed for consumer gadgets. Mobile phones, for instance, contain a number of devices useful in making drones, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, wireless transmitters, signal processors and GPS units. As a result the use of drones is spreading rapidly beyond their now familiar military roles. Civilian drones are being used by businesses ranging from surveyors to utilities, delivery firms, news organisations and farms.]]>

Meet the people pioneering new careers as drone pilots, from the South African savannah to the building sites of California. Drones are the unmanned miniaturized aircraft of the future. Today these planes and helicopters are on the verge of revolutionizing the civilian workplace. From agriculture to industry, the specialized skills of the people who fly them are in ever higher demand. Ready-to-fly drones are now available from around $1,000. Some have been developed from radio-controlled model aeroplanes. But their ability at low cost to operate autonomously comes from the use of commodity electronics developed for consumer gadgets. Mobile phones, for instance, contain a number of devices useful in making drones, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, wireless transmitters, signal processors and GPS units. As a result the use of drones is spreading rapidly beyond their now familiar military roles. Civilian drones are being used by businesses ranging from surveyors to utilities, delivery firms, news organisations and farms.]]> https://documentary.net/video/the-drone-pilots-making-the-world-a-better-place/feed/ 0 https://documentary.net/video/robot-wars-unmanned-systems-in-the-battlefield/ https://documentary.net/video/robot-wars-unmanned-systems-in-the-battlefield/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:31:21 +0000 http://documentary.net/?p=4239

Over the past decade, the US military has shifted the way it fights its wars, deploying more unmanned systems in the battlefield than ever before. Today there are more than 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground robots in use by all branches of the military. These systems mean less American deaths and also less political risk for the US when it takes acts of lethal force – often outside of official war zones. But US lethal drone strikes in countries like Pakistan have brought up serious questions about the legal and political implications of using these systems. The film looks at how these new weapons of choice are allowing the US to stretch the international laws of war and what it could mean when more and more autonomy is developed for these lethal machines.]]>

Over the past decade, the US military has shifted the way it fights its wars, deploying more unmanned systems in the battlefield than ever before. Today there are more than 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground robots in use by all branches of the military. These systems mean less American deaths and also less political risk for the US when it takes acts of lethal force – often outside of official war zones. But US lethal drone strikes in countries like Pakistan have brought up serious questions about the legal and political implications of using these systems. The film looks at how these new weapons of choice are allowing the US to stretch the international laws of war and what it could mean when more and more autonomy is developed for these lethal machines.]]> https://documentary.net/video/robot-wars-unmanned-systems-in-the-battlefield/feed/ 1