http://boingboing.net/2012/02/01/toy-sized-quadrotors-flying-in.html
An impressive swarm of small bots. I see so many EP possibilities for these...
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Quadrotor swarms
Wed, 2012-02-01 15:25
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Arenamontanus
Quadrotor swarms
Wed, 2012-02-01 15:31
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CodeBreaker
Re: Quadrotor swarms
That is simultaneously incredible and fucking terrifying.
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Wed, 2012-02-01 19:23
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Extrasolar Angel
Re: Quadrotor swarms
And real life ones too
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/drones-for-human-rights.html?_...
Of course the opposite side as mentioned in your link can use them too ;)
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Thu, 2012-02-02 12:43
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Foucault
Re: Quadrotor swarms
The important caveat about that swarm is that they don't do their own mapping of the volume they're navigating. Instead they use several large and expensive cameras position around the room for navigation and tracking.
Instead, they give the drone vision problem to another research group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoMrPKCpWXw
Note the title card, first author is the same but the second and third are different. It looks like their lidar test system is too large for their smaller quadrotors. So they do the sensible think and separate the two problems. Either way, when they bring it together they'll be more than capable.
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Mon, 2012-02-13 22:49
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Arjac
Re: Quadrotor swarms
(insert The Birds reference here)
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Tue, 2012-02-14 09:41
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Arenamontanus
Re: Quadrotor swarms
Met one of the originators of this neat idea yesterday: http://matternet.net/
Basically a packet network for... packages, using quadrotors. Nearly feasible today, likely very doable in a few years. In EP this might be a convenient system for small scale transport around habitats and in roadless terrain on Mars and exoplanets.
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Fri, 2012-03-02 06:51
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Extrasolar Angel
Re: Quadrotor swarms
There is TED talk about these robots if somebody is interested. Not much anything new...but if you skip to 15 minute you will see an amusing musical performance by a swarm.
http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
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