US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @06:20PM from the teaching-skynet-how-to-kill-us dept.

coondoggie writes: The Office of Naval Research today said it had successfully demonstrated a system that lets small-unmanned aircraft swarm and act together over a particular target. The system, called Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) features a tube-based launcher that can send multiple drones into the air in rapid succession. The systems then use information sharing between the drones, allowing autonomous collaborative behavior in either defensive or offensive missions, the Navy said.

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Applications by Translation+Error · 2015-04-15 03:05 · Score: 3, Insightful

All the comments about killing machines aside, it sounds like these could be of great benefit in search & rescue and fire fighting.

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