As someone who has personally used a chainsaw for many years I saw that video with interest but realized quickly it's faked. It takes a substantial amount of force on a chainsaw to keep it cutting. A real chain saw is a relatively heavy device. I see no evidence in that video that the chainsaw is in fact cutting anything while only under the forces afforded by the drone. Every cutting shot is from closeup and I did not see a single shot of it cutting from a distance. Either it's very poor choice of editing since it doesn't show what the whole video purports or it's a fake.
This is something I often thought about, for the purposes of tree pruning. What if you could point a laser-like LED beam to the location you want cut on a 55ft-high pine tree, and have the drone-chainsaw cut that exact location? That would beat using cranes or bucket lifts to hoist a person with their chainsaw way up in the air.<p>(Of course the ground would still have to be cleared of people, as a branch would be falling down and in case the chainsaw/drone combo malfunctions.)
Combine this with a vulnerability that allows you to take over a professional drone and it could get messy.<p><a href="https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Rodday-Hacking-A-Professional-Drone.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Rodd...</a>
If anyone is interested in some more drone chainsaw action, they should check out when Jamie from Mythbusters attempted to make one of these: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe9IDx3vCs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe9IDx3vCs</a><p>He was unable to get it to work effectively or safely, though his drone was not as heavy-duty as the one from this thread.
That's kind of the 21st century evolution of this[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuJGhe4oGw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuJGhe4oGw</a>
I really dislike filmmakers doing this kind of stupid stunts (Ok I admit I hate the film makers tries do deceive even more . Like the idiots who make eagle taking a child or flying wing man etc.). Why not put a Ak-47 or a hand grenade to the damn drone? You would get more attention.
This should be illegal everywhere.
I'm really afraid of the not too distant future when drones are cheap and autonomous enough so that they are able to be controlled by a small crazy group and used to harm lots of people. I don't think we as a society are prepared for it.