The city police Chief Sam Dotson has hopes that such robot surveillance drones will eventually take to the skies of St. Louis within a year, although one might wonder what kind of privacy issues that having such robot drones patrol our skies would breach. At the very least, it is nice to know that these surveillance drones will not carry weapons, and they are tiny enough to find their way around, being as small as a coffee cup in some instances. So far, the St. Louis Police Department has already placed a request from the Federal Aviation Administration so that they can use these unmanned surveillance vehicles. One thing’s for sure, these are more mobile than helicopters, are less obvious, and obviously, easier on the pocket, costing less than $10,000 a pop compared to a $2.5 million helicopter.