Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to
www.wired.com
Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11 months

    Now, the drone-captured data is sent off to contractors at SewerAI, who run it through their AI-assisted algorithms to identify defects automatically.

    Now this is the kind of AI shit (pun intended) I can get behind (pun even more intended).

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
      11 months

      This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it’s sewer blockages or cancer cells.

      • thedruid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 months

        yep. all we have to do is keep incrementally improving lives with tech, instead of being assholes to each other. Imagine the world, if peace was the most researched branch

        • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11 months

          Marianne Williamson got laughed at about this in the 2020 US primary, but she was the only person who meaningfully advocated for peace among nations, going so far as to propose a Department of Peace.

          • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11 months

            Peace isn’t something that can be managed in its own department. Peace is the (unstable) result of a lot of other things being very carefully managed.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11 months

    This is honestly such an uplifting news that gives me hope for the future.

    Prefer this over stories like a 10 year old that raised money to make up for lack of health care or some dystopian thing like that.

    • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
      11 months

      Honestly I though somebody was using drones to throw shit at people below.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 months

        Why do I believe if Mythbusters was still on the air they’d actually try this.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          11 months

          Adam savage has yt channel, basically he’s doing whatever. Adam and Jamie doesn’t seem eye to eye, by his experience with him, it was mostly professional relationship

  • psyvibe@lemm.eeEnglish
    11 months

    Sewer drone found footage could make a great horror movie.

    • j0ester@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      Please don’t give Hollywood any ideas… like the Blair witch project.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    Who services the poop drones I ask you…

    Some unlucky roboticist is stuck cleaning poop off treads, testing sensors and resoldering connections while wearing gloves and just hoping they don’t tear…

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    So much for Mike Rowes dirty jobs.

    (Jk, those things were always a load of shit anyway.)

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      eh…

      mike rowe’s full of shit. don’t think for a moment any of those jobs were made up though.

      Man now I miss cash cab…

      • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 months

        It’s basically like saying “illegal immigrants” aren’t made up for Trump. Like, obviously people coming into the country illegally exist, but the dude was just making shit up when it came to the actual numbers.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11 months

          iirc he was a musician before this gig so… yeah, hard working blue collar stuff rrwwarr ford tuff hemi merika fuckyea

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        11 months

        I remember he was shilling for trump after he won his first term, he was trying to play it off “it’s not that bad” that he got voted.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    They need to make mining drones mandatory, too. Humans have no business being in holes. They are not their holes, they do not belong in them.
    I’m looking at you, spelunkers.

    • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      Humans have no business being in holes

      Thus, sex became forbidden, and humanity declined, with last generation asking their ancestors why would they impose such harsh ban upon them shortly before extinction.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    11 months

    I had poop drones on my bingo card!

    Have vaginal scented candles been invented?