Technology

37738 readers

48 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social

Scientists make AI laser turret for killing cockroaches - What could possibly go wrong? (mybroadband.co.za)

submitted 2 years ago by GadgeteerZA to c/technology

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Scientists have developed a laser with artificial intelligence (AI) designed to neutralise cockroaches as a new form of pest control.

The team’s experiments showed that its laser system “enables the immediate and selective neutralisation of individual insects” from a distance of up to 1.2 metres.

You certainly want to be sure to have some remote kill switch for this device, as I would not want to walk up to it to disable it if it has some malfunction. Will also be interesting to see what else it zaps by mistake… although mosquitoes would be great!

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/science/462446-scientists-make-ai-laser-turret-for-killing-cockroaches.html

#technology #AI #cockroaches #pestcontrol

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] chclau 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Up to a distance of 1.2m seems quite low to me

[–] GadgeteerZA 2 points 2 years ago

Imagine this thing shooting lasers out to 5m plus ;-)