Drone Swarms Avoid Crashing With ‘Safety Bubbles’
Watch out! A team of autonomous quadcopters can now work together without crashing. Continue reading Drone Swarms Avoid Crashing With ‘Safety Bubbles’
Tag Archives: Swarm
This Kaleidoscopic Visualization Maps Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Anomalies
Our planet is sculpted by hidden magnetic flourishes. Continue reading This Kaleidoscopic Visualization Maps Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Anomalies
Zooids — Swarm User Interface
What the heck is a Zooid? A Zooid is a small cylindrical robot, measuring 26 mm in diameter and 21 mm in height, weighting about 12g. Each robot is powered by a 100 mAh LiPo battery and uses motor driven wheels — and these things are snappy at a top speed of about 0.5m/s. Each Zooid is able to know if you touched it via capacitive touch sensing. It has wireless capabilities through an NRF24L01+ chip. So, what’s it for, you wonder…
One robot might not do much but the idea behind the Zooids is the introduction of swarm user …read more
Drones, Swarms At War
Using drones in areas of conflict is not something new. As commercial drones get easily affordable, we see it all the time in the news, some soldier using a Parrot drone to scout ahead, above trenches or around buildings. That’s a new reality that soldiers have to get used to. It changes the battlefield, especially traditional ground warfare. There is also research in drone swarms, performing tasks in team for some time now. Some of them are really impressive.
And then there’s the U.S. Military Perdix drones. William Roper of the Department of Defense illustrate what exactly their capabilities are: …read more
Drones, Swarms At War
Using drones in areas of conflict is not something new. As commercial drones get easily affordable, we see it all the time in the news, some soldier using a Parrot drone to scout ahead, above trenches or around buildings. That’s a new reality that soldiers have to get used to. It changes the battlefield, especially traditional ground warfare. There is also research in drone swarms, performing tasks in team for some time now. Some of them are really impressive.
And then there’s the U.S. Military Perdix drones. William Roper of the Department of Defense illustrate what exactly their capabilities are: …read more
Watch These Mini-Robots Self-Assemble into Different Shapes
A new approach to autonomous bots. Continue reading Watch These Mini-Robots Self-Assemble into Different Shapes
Raspberry Pi Hive Mind
Setting up a cluster of computers used to be a high-end trick used in big data centers and labs. After all, buying a bunch of, say, VAX computers runs into money pretty quickly (not even counting the operating expense). Today, though, most of us have a slew of Raspberry Pi computers.
Because the Pi runs Linux (or, at least, can run Linux), there are a wealth of tools out there for doing just about anything. The trick is figuring out how to install it. Clustering several Linux boxes isn’t necessarily difficult, but it does take a lot of work unless …read more
