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Posted on 02/02/2012 10:49:53 AM PST by Nachum
f the soldier-like perfection of the synchronized formation by these mini drones doesn’t freak you out a bit — their collective buzzing sure will.
Orchestrated by the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, these 20 “nano quadrotors” developed by KMel Robotics seem to, as Popular Science describes, sense each other’s proximity and work together to maintain formation “like a hive of bees moving en masse.”
Watch the drone swarm in varying formations and with obstacles (Note: Hold out for the figure eight at 1:27):
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For a VIP at a public event, security would either have to use physical nets, or an anti-air element.
Wow...
Westernairres still do it better. Nothing like teens on horses doing the figure eight at a gallop.
There are related videos that are equally impressive.
As exciting as this is, it is still in the “cheating” phase. That is, notice the sheets. It is so a computer can control all of them individually by seeing them against the white sheets.
IOW, they are not acting on their own. Rather, a single “brain” in the main computer is controlling all of them.
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How about a swarm launched against an unsuspecting city by bad guys?
Awesome book! You beat me to it.
I love nanobots for military applications. Imagine 100,000 of those swarming over multiple divisions of enemy soldiers, each one loaded with about 4 oz of composition B, each one communicating with every other one simultaneously assigning targets, simultaneously descending upon their targets, simultaneously exploding when they get about 3 feet away from their targets. ohohoho fun fun fun.
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That is so damn cool!!
“As exciting as this is, it is still in the “cheating” phase.”
I also noted the special lights mounted above the sheets, looked like IR seen through a digital cam.
Not field-ready, but impressive nontheless.
“security would either have to use physical nets, or an anti-air element.”
They could just hire a good skeet shooter to tag along.
Unfortunately the Obama regime is more likely to release them on a neighborhood full of political oppenents than a foreign enemy. Leftists always save the real horrors for their own people.
—Not field-ready, but impressive nontheless.—
Exactly!
Give it time...
—Not field-ready, but impressive nontheless.—
Here are some more INCREDIBLE videos of these things:
Next Step - I want to see you paint half of them blue and half of them red, then have the red team attack the blue team, and see if they can keep themselves straight.
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
I think the sheets are there so we can see them.
Does that mean the terminators go into action in 2012?
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