The UltraSwarm project, from the University of Essex, sounds really neat:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n British researchers are turning to Linux and embedded processors to build a fleet of tiny, robotic helicopters capable of swarming like angry bees and evaluating their surroundings with a single hive mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/a><\/p>\n But wait, there’s more:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If all goes according to plan, the helicopters will communicate with one another over Bluetooth, allowing them to move as one entity, and even to carry out sophisticated computation-heavy tasks using distributed computing techniques.<\/p>\n “We’ll have a flock of helicopters; they will be autonomous individually and as a swarm, and they will be gathering and processing visual data in distributed way,” says Owen Holland, project director and deputy head of the university’s computer science department.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/a><\/p>\n If anyone is looking for birthday ideas, an intelligent swarm of robotic helicoptors is always a nice gift…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UltraSwarm project, from the University of Essex, sounds really neat: British researchers are turning to Linux and embedded processors to build a fleet of tiny, robotic helicopters capable of swarming like angry bees and evaluating their surroundings with a single hive mind. But wait, there’s more: If all goes according to plan, the helicopters […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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