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we're here chaotic news studios they've got an autonomous Tarot mr6 hexacopter and they've decked it out in 80,000 volts Tonga my name is Willie I'm co-founder of chaotic moon studios and chief innovation officer and we are in a new soon to be expanded into space at chaotic moons offices here in Austin Texas so what we wanted to do is we wanted to take some of these issues that people have been talking about about drones patrolling the skies and being weaponized and all of these things and actually do some real-world engineering work around that to kind of raise the awareness South by was a perfect area to do that the original demo we did we looked at three areas we looked at personal safety we looked at personal privacy and then we looked at kind of some law-enforcement patience in the personal safety kind of personal drone stuff which is where we came with the name Cupid right chaotic unmanned personal intercepted drone what we did is we took a scenario of you're on a large swath of property someone crosses a line sets off an alarm the drone then deploys itself it finds the the person it kind of buzzes around them and then you get a phone notification and it says you know here's your video from the drone it says detain or authorize and if you say detain then at that point it goes back to fully autonomous it's got its instructions it notifies the authorities the pre-recorded message and it tells you you know - please kneel down on your knees on the ground and put your hands behind your head if you were to run away from the property line the situational analysis would say you're leaving you're becoming less of a threat and so it just hovers and stays there and let you go if you were to continue to advance or if you were to try to take out the drone then it can make several semi-autonomous and autonomous decisions on whether it should tase you or not and then it can continue to taste you until the authorities arrive while this demo is entirely piloted they say cupid's capable of running the same test with almost no human intervention I found a lot about the situational analysis of like how could this be used say to keep officers out of danger so perhaps there's a raid on a house and somebody runs why send somebody with a gun and chasing them down the alley the drone could just go and detain them and then you could just come in and pick them up one of the interesting things is we looked at fencing in other areas and the physics that's kind of like a parry and a thrust so that we could program when it's in full autonomous it can put enough slack in the cable so that when you fall if you run if you flop it it doesn't pull the drone out of the sky or pull the cable out of your back and so on and so forth so it's actually aware of all of that situational analysis and then it takes action accordingly based on kind of the physics of the environment what we wanted to use was the stage of South by to raise awareness of this is actually something is possible now so that we can kind of start a conversation about how do you feel as a citizen about you know police having that how do police feel how about having it what do congressmen think what is the F a thank you know so on and so forth because we think that there's a not enough conversation right now it's educated conversation occurring around the entire kind of drone industry in the end it's a simple proof-of-concept if we want to turn drones into non-lethal security guards we know how to do that so how do we feel about this if you need a security guard would you rather have a drone with a Taser or a human being with a gun with an idea that's new it's hard to say for sure even if we can build it it feels like maybe we should Oh