Remember the training sessions the All Blacks held last year where they had players running around with cameras strapped to their heads? Not to be outdone, check out this pearler of a press release from the Scottish 6 Nations team.

The Scotland rugby team has been taking advantage of technology pioneered by club and community rugby sponsor, Scottish Hydro, and their partners at technology firm, Cyberhawk Innovations, to offer a groundbreaking perspective on preparations for this weekend's 6 Nations opener against France at Murrayfield.

The flying Cyberhawk drones, nicknamed 'The Flying Scot' after Scotland's joint record try-scorer, Ian Smith, are kept stable by eight independent rotor-blades, managed by an on-board GPS.

The units are fitted with video equipment capable of relaying live action and still images to the team's coaches and video analysts from up to 300m above the training ground, or from directly behind the players themselves, to offer a player's view of the action.

So you're using cutting-edge robotics to make your team better? Couldn't you have just cut out the middleman and strapped giant robot legs to Chris Paterson? And has Northern Hemisphere rugby just resorted to the gimmick? First it was 3DTV, now it's flying robots... What's next, the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleaders?