Sunday 18 November 2012

MIT investigating ways to combat boredom in drone pilots

MIT investigating ways to combat boredom in drone pilots:
Drone pilots (Image: Department of Defense)
The saying that "war is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror” could have been written for military UAV pilots. The news media like to portray drones like the MQ-1 Predator as robot warriors, but behind each one is a human pilot with only limited powers of endurance. On long missions, pilots get bored and distracted, so a team from MIT’s Human and Automaton’s Lab is studying how what can be done to stave off boredom and keep pilots alert... Continue Reading MIT investigating ways to combat boredom in drone pilots

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