This is the Interceptor. It’s the creation of Palmer Luckey, who might be the world’s
most unlikely weapons mogul. He’s the founder of a multibillion dollar, virtual reality company. He’s also a polarizing
figure in Silicon Valley. My name is Palmer Luckey, and
I’m the founder of Anduril. I wanna build a big company. I wanna build a company that’s
worth billions of dollars. I wanna become one of the
major defense contractors, that’s building technology for
the United States government. And I’m proud to say that,
I’m happy to say that, and I hope we get there. At his previous company, the virtual reality
headset maker, Oculus Rift, Luckey had the idea to build
a futuristic consumer device, combining low cost components
with sophisticated software. He sold Oculus to Facebook
for about $2 billion in 2014. Two years later, just a month before the
2016 presidential election, The Daily Beast reported
he’d given $10,000 to a group of Trump supporters, to fund billboards
featuring insulting messages about Hillary Clinton. In 2017, Facebook announced that Luckey was no longer an employee. I was fired. We can all be honest about it. It became the rare HR decision to make it into a congressional hearing. CEO, have you ever made hiring or firing decisions based
on political positions, or what candidates they supported? No Why was Palmer Luckey fired? That is a specific personnel matter that seems like it would
be inappropriate to speak– You just made a specific representation that you didn’t make decisions
based on political views. Is that accurate?
Well, I can commit that it was not because
of a political view. Anduril has followed
Luckey’s Oculus playbook, using off-the-shelf components, in an industry much more
suited to his politics. Over the course of a few
months, earlier this year, the company built a cheap
version of its drone, made a smartphone video, and started showing it to
people at the Pentagon. It’s a little crazy, but I think that is definitely
the way that it’s going. I mean, all these other
systems, like, where they, there are people who
propose shooting drones out of the sky with a
laser, or with a missile, or you know, that’s not
really a good way to take out, let’s say, a hundred drones that are attacking you from
all different directions. The only thing that can take
out a swarm of fast drones, is a bigger swarm of faster drones, and that’s exactly what we’re building. Here’s some Interceptors. This one has a experimental
parachute release mechanism. So that the idea is, after
it runs into something, if it really destroys it drive train, rather than falling to the ground, it can pop a parachute and
fall to the ground safely. Pops this thing, pops open,
and there’s the parachute. I think that’s one of the reasons that our customers like us so much. I mean, they’re used to going
to people who have like, here’s this white paper. Here’s this idea that we have. We want you to pay us by the hour, so that we can research it, and figure out if it makes sense. And if it does, you’ll pay
us by the hour to make it. And then, if it doesn’t, you’ll
pay us until it does work. And we’re going to them and saying “We do this ourselves,
we used our own money, “we got it done in a matter
of weeks, and here it is.” Anduril has shipped several hundred Interceptors
to military bases. It also has contracts with the US Customs and
Border Protection agency, to provide surveillance equipment to use at the border with Mexico. Workers at other tech companies, such as Google, Microsoft,
Amazon, and Palantir, have all objected to doing similar work, leading to protests by the
employees and activists. Luckey insists that Anduril’s
work isn’t partisan. There’s a lot of people who, I think, falsely conflate border security with immigration policy. And, I don’t care what you
believe on immigration policy, even if you want to have
totally open immigration. Anyone can come into the United States and instantly become a citizen. You should still want to
have strong border security. The company’s surveillance technology consists of large towers,
packed with sensors, and small surveillance drones
that can be set up along the border, or at military
bases, to guard the perimeter. So, this is one of our sentry towers, it is a totally autonomous,
solar powered infrastructure, independent security tower. So, by placing these
towers every few miles, you can end up with a
nearly perfect picture of everything that’s going
on in a really large area. And then that is very easy
for an operator to read. These are being used right now by the DOD, by the Department of Homeland Security, along military bases, the border, and a lot of other
critical infrastructure. Anduril’s future success relies largely on the military’s continued concern that the US could lose
to China in an arms race based on artificial intelligence. Our technology is far behind the consumer area in many places. And we’re also far behind our adversaries in a lot of places. People should be more
worried than they are, about falling behind, ’cause it’s not something
that’s gonna happen someday. It’s already happened. Critics say, technologists, like Luckey, have an ethical duty to stay
out of the weapons business. But neither the military,
nor Anduril’s investors share their concerns. The company recently raised a
$120 million investment round, valuing it at about $1 billion.
Drone arms race. Only a matter of time.
a 12 year old with a Sui-vest in any. random afghan city has more bravery and purpose than everyone in the comments section combined.
You ain't no Tony stark boi
Drone dezzzzz nuts
So because he's a Trump supporter, he's evil?
Great intro on trump Bloomberg, You are now added to the fake news list
I like this
He looks like Tony Stark
Produced by: Diana Suryakusuma, Indonesian?
That forced lingering smurk… I smell sociopath.
Anybody who has a blood of humanity should stand against racist people
Military industrial complex will destroy it before it's launched LOL
He is a dude
He looks and reminds me of titan from megamind or that annoying dude from the incredibles.
Omg! That guy looks like Syndrome from The incredible's!
"We well not weaponize robots and act in a responsible way. Robots will improve quality of life." Oh wait…
For every cure we need a poison to counter it incase the cure turn out a zombie creating virus!
There's nothing new about his cheap drone
WW3 gonna be fucking messy
Mysterio-starks wanna be
I wonder why not use missiles for drones instead of other drones? The towers do look awesome anyway.
Drone battles right?
it sounds like a pretty fukin bad ass sport…
Flying people sounds likes a pretty badass sport to, like the jet packs stuff, honestly i think t sounds cooler than nasxar or grandpix… ( you know imagining people racing on jet packs instead of milliondollar nascars type stuf)
He has not watched baahubali. You just shoot a huge blanket in the sky and take out a swarm of drones.
I think hes like a tech super hero. He should wheel around his office with a cape on!
Americans have an Ethical duty to keep foreign nationalists out of their country
Genius people arent likable , example Neil de Grasse is not a smart person , people like him , there is a science behind this theory , check it out , its cause they dont value and learn social norms
Palmer reminds me of every evil villain in Sifi Kids movies. In that he’s likable but what he’s doing is kinda scary as fuck.
Guy doesn't only look like a douche bag.
Who wants to live in a future like that hate, fear, death and destruction.
Anduril palantir.. when is smeagol coming?
You had me at “ trump supporter “
Common sense must always prevail
“ we build it with our money “
– gets 100 million from investors 🤣🤣🤣
Dude you are just crazy enough to believe!!! I am so glad you placed a comma in your sentence to let me in!
anyone can do this… they don't need this dude…
psychopath and proud of himself
Is it just me, or is this kid syndrome from the incredibles
no color in his company for sure
Hope he releases skynet
No respect for racists.
This Company is on the way up. Hugh potential world wide.
Seems like an awesome dude taking on the liberal establishment but from an alt right perspective getting into the neo con military industry is only more of the same. No point to defend the borders if the enemy are already entrenched inside them.
nice job of creating an unbiased video. China is growing because they have a lot of data to work with and study, data that is collected from their people. China has wide surveillance programs etc and publicly admits it as they state it for their safety…
"Oh what's that? Your now destroyed several hundred dollar drone wasn't actually in our airspace but just a few feet off? And we destroyed it because we don't want you taking cool birds eye view shots of the area and not because it posed a threat to us because nobody is using drones as weapons? Oh well go buy another."
Incredible technology
Not that I had any from the start, but any respect I in theory would've had for this guy was lost when he started using a hoverboard.
Defense matters. It's when you are most comfortable that you are most vulnerable.
There were rumors that Carson Palmer and Andrew Luck became a gay married couple after playing for the Titans. The rumors are true and they had a son that became a Tech Titan.
I would Love to work For this Guy.
Once hackers get it, it will be a desgrace
"Hey This guy was fired from Facebook ."
"See Nobody cares "
Bruh, Casey Neistay was born on 1981…
That is how government business should be done.
We want more of this.
Hope more silicon valley companies catch on and work more with the dod
Nice. Can shot that libtard ass
Has he never heard of a C-RAM?
Hoverboard around the building?
Air compressor to the face?
What an asshole. I love this guy.
Amazing, somebody running a tech company that's not a mindless, progressive, PC zombie.
Never heard of the this guy before but I dislike him already
Defense is the most important thing a country could invest in. We should not let china beat us.
Tony stark fan
Google is very bias . The are part of One World Order. If that ever happens, Google will be among the first to be taken over by them. They are too stupid to figure that one out.
Just love genius! Political opinions do not factor, nor count. Invest in this company.
Jesus Saves.
I watched the Video 25 sec. and i already didnt like palmer lucky
😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
Im not understanding you want to knockout drones that want to take scenic views.
Only a guy who's worth $700 million can get away with wearing that shirt and having that facial hair at work.
2029: Welcome to Drone Death Match 2029!!
🐷🐷🐷💩💩💩💩💩💩
When did he come up with this idea? Because I've been trying to find somebody to build a drone killer that locks on to the signal of a drone that you can carry in your hand and I've been calling for it for over 5 years. If I knew how to build Electronics I would have already built it. The version I came up with has an EMP that it sets off when it attaches itself to the Drone. I never wanted to sell it to the government but give it to the people and show them how to build it themselves so that they can protect themselves from the government drones. I even laid out a design. I mentioned this on Facebook when I was still on there to some tech guys years ago. Never trust those who worship the government and money
So killer robots
He just want to copy iron man. Defence defence bullshit.
Love this guys. Hope he gets more contracts. This is a field the asian community here in the states has contributed heavily towards. Im very proud of the innovations and precedence they have created in such a short time frame. Its the next generational warfare. I hope they get their due as well.
Chin(k) from Asia here…..soon u will have drones killing drone killing drones robots killing drones…..and then one day u will have Armageddon drones,the cycle never ends…..
All i heard him say is money money money money… typical trump supporter fucken trashhh
That's why you shouldn't listen to critics, there is always against the grain…. My opinion is an Ethical Duty to MAKE THESE! Palmer did well, starting a new company to get sh$$ done to protect us 😀
wonder how much adderall he takes
Most hated person in states in 2018
Just deliver my dam pizza
But there’s so many better ways to take out drones…
Go to hell
Nobody walks in that company.
Crashing your drones into enemy drones is brute force method of solving the problem.
Very inefficient and destined to fail.
To sell this dumb technology and make money you have to make some public comments supporting the government in power to get the defence contracts.
Villain
Did this guy became fat or something? Wasn't he like skinny…
Lucky: I wanna look cool for this interview
Lucky's Goatee: nah fam lets get weird
I fail to see any use case, for such low tech solutions, beyond interception of consumer market drones.
Next GTA 6 character revelead
I love Oculus, but I fucking hate this guy and I don't know why. He looks and sound like very annoying person.
So much worse than nukes
Last laugh
Can't wait till I can get into a drone human size, so i can fly everywhere.
Lucky, the rest of SV wants you out. We don't need anymore techies, let alone more that get in bed with the gov.
Perfect. I was thinking about this
Such a punchable face? Try hitting an fpv drone. Lol
Dude I always thought real life rich supervillains would be like Lex Luthor, not some nerd who names his company after a sword from LOTR.
I don't like the thing your making; you remind me of a drug addict except your drug is money (neoliberal.)
Why the hell does this guy looks like he is going to be a evil genius,mad scientist or criminal mastermind that wants to conquer the world some point like the way he talks and his hairstyle makes me think of that
Now we need EMP weapons to counter these drones.
very interesting company / problem area — utter rubbish reporting