A 49 Nano Quadcopter Swarm

DesVegas

This is pretty rad, developed at USC (which i can only presume it the University of Scunthorpe)

http://imgur.com/gallery/a19EtLq

BigMonka

Very cool. Surprised it's taken this long though, a friend of mine did his PhD (electronic engineering) on the algorithms needed for swarming nearly 10years ago.

cj73

I haven't watched but if it's not soundtracked by Ride of the Valkyries I'm gonna be dissapointed

fretmeister

That's cool!

hotpot

WoW! that is so cool. I had no idea they could be controlled to such a precise degree like that.

Flanging_Fred

...and how long is it going to take for dodgy governments to realise that its a pretty nifty way to circumvent the international ban on cluster bombs.

sigh.

bloodandtears

from Sept 2016 iirc.. but very cool and scary

Kalimna

The flying in formation was nice, but the truly impressive bit was when they moved out of the way when the researcher walked through them.
Interesting to know how much of the position sensing/vectoring is done on-board vs the (I am assuming) sensor array around the flightpath.

Scary and cool indeed.

Adam

cj73

When google's AI becomes self aware we are stuffed 

Sporky

cj73 said:

When google's AI becomes self aware we are stuffed 

Maybe I already am.

Gulliver

That's some dude's actual job... To muck about with drones for hours on end.

I'm about to go teach some 14 year olds not to stab each other with a compass.

I've clearly made some poor life choices

DesVegas

@Gulliver ; said:

That's some dude's actual job... To muck about with drones for hours on end.

I'm about to go teach some 14 year olds not to stab each other with a compass.

I've clearly made some poor life choices

Just born ten years too early