I think we can all agree that things with claws are scary. Yes, I am well aware of the fact that cats have claws as well, and I won't change one thing about what I've just said. If you've ever woken up to the cold stare of a cat in the middle of a full-moon night, you'll know what I'm on about.
That means there's an easy way of making something that's quite benign on its own look a lot more ominous: put some claws on it. Just think of any object you want - a chair, a teddy bear, your laptop - and then imagine it with claws. Yup, that's right, now it's trying to kill you.
But if it isn't particularly obvious in all cases, it shouldn't have taken a genius to realize that a drone with claws will have mothers running to protect their babies every time this thing showed up near them. Here are a few tips for the drone's creators to make it look less like an assassin sent from the future and more like the utility drone it wants to be: paint it a different color than black; stop waving its claws for no apparent reason why it flies; name it something cute like "Fluffy;" finally, if everything else fails, remove the god damn claws.
The thing is called PD6B-AW-ARM, which is short for Prodrone something-something ARM. It has a pair of five-axis robotic arms with claws at the end that can grab stuff weighing up to 10 kilograms (22 pounds), so you're safe. The actual drone has a total payload of double that, but the restriction comes from the way those two arms are built.
The added limbs also enable the otherwise normal-looking Prodrone to land in places it couldn't have previously done so. We wouldn't be surprised if it could even hang upside-down in a cave waiting to smell something warm-blooded approach, to be honest.
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