The Future Is: Swarming Intelligence
PrintThere’s a ton of research being done these days on swarm intelligence, and how we can recreate in software the physical interactions of things like insects and schools of fish in order to more efficiently program the robots of the future. This week I saw two different examples of this online that blew me away. These aren’t products, certainly, but they point the way to a future that I’m not sure most of us will even recognize. The next 20 years will be truly unbelievable.
Take a look at both of these…trust me, it’s worth it.
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The winds over a few hundred
The winds over a few hundred feet AGL are routinely 20-30mph. I can’t imagine these little helocopter things navigating this and remaining in any formation discernable from the ground.