Swarm of tiny drones explores unknown environments

Researchers have presented a swarm of tiny drones that can explore unknown environments completely by themselves. This work, presented in Science Robotics on 23 October, is a significant step in the field of swarm robotics. The challenge comes from the fact that the tiny 33-gram drones need to navigate autonomously while having extremely limited sensing and computational capabilities. The joint research team—with researchers from TU Delft, University of Liverpool and Radboud University of Nijmegen—tackled this challenge by drawing inspiration from the relative simplicity of insect navigation.

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