It only takes a few hours to configure a small, commercially available drone to hunt down a target by itself, a scientist has warned.
Collaborating with Robert Lukoszko, another engineer, he configured the drone to use an object-detection model to find people and fly toward them at full speed, he said. The engineers also built facial recognition into the drone, which works at a range of up to 33 feet . This means a weaponized version of the drone could be used to attack a specific person or set of targets."This literally took just a few hours to build, and made me realize how scary it is," Wenus wrote.
Wenus said his experiment showed that society urgently needs to build anti-drone systems for civilian spaces where large crowds could gather. There are several countermeasures that society can build, according to Robin Radar, including cameras, acoustic sensors and radar to detect drones. Disrupting them, however, could require technologies such as radio frequency jammers, GPS spoofers, net guns, as well as high-energy lasers.