• Joxnir
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    12 years ago

    I’m guessing we’re about a decade away from this getting miniaturized down to insect sizes.

  • Underuse3862
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    102 years ago

    In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.

    That’s an optimistic way of looking at it.

  • @Twashe@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    I’m not sure what the big deal is here. The US military has had swarm tech like this for almost a decade through DARPA performing mapping and scouting missions

  • @maporita@unilem.org
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    112 years ago

    “In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.”.

    Yeah sure, tell me another one