On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Bruce  Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It may not be nearly as useful as, say, a remote controlled toy, which
>>> you really can stear and which may very well be equiped with video
>>> camera(s) to allow the pilot to get a direct POV view of the remote's
>>> environment.
>>
>> True, but not all ships will have remote controlled toys...
>
> But well-prepared Pirates will. I expect some sort of ground/air recon drone to be standard kit by this point in time; it very nearly is today.

Ground recon already is.  By the same people who build the Roomba, oddly enough.

http://www.irobot.com/~/media/Files/Robots/Defense/FirstLook/iRobot-110-FirstLook-Specs.pdf?la=en

(Drone, to me, implies some level of automation; this is a straight up RC unit.)

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