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As the video shows, the quad squadron can fly in linear arrays, navigate around obstacles and otherwise exhibit what the GRASP team dubs complex autonomous swarm behavior.</p> <p><div style="width: 530px; height: 286px; " class="article_img"><a href="/web/20120226123249/http://www.gizmag.com/grasp-nano-quadrotor-robots-swarm/21302/pictures#1" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/nanoquadrotors.png" width="530"/></a></div></p> <p>A European team recently <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249/http://www.gizmag.com/flying-robots-to-build-6-meter-tower/20639/" target="_blank">demonstrated similar "swarm" capabilities</a> by using quadrotors to build a 6 meter (19.7 ft) polystyrene tower.</p> <p>Watch the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249/https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/" target="_blank">GRASP</a> video below to see how real-world development in this area is no longer just a flight of fancy.</p>  <div class="article_video"><br/><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="500" height="300" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/YQIMGV5vtd4" frameborder="0"> </iframe><br/> </div> <div id="bottom_unit"> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> </div> </div>  <span class="title">Share</span> <div id="article_share" class="dotsontop"> <div class="pw_widget pw_copypaste_false pw_size_24 pw_counter_false"> <a class="pw_googleplus"></a> <a class="pw_facebook"></a> <a class="pw_twitter"></a> <a class="pw_stumble_upon"></a> <a class="pw_title" style="display:none">UPenn's GRASP lab unleashes a swarm of Nano Quadrotors</a> <a class="pw_url" style="display:none">http://www.gizmag.com/grasp-nano-quadrotor-robots-swarm/21302/</a> </div> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249js_/http://i.po.st/share/script/post-widget.js#publisherKey=gizmagcom1096" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> <fb:like href="http://www.gizmag.com/grasp-nano-quadrotor-robots-swarm/21302/" send="false" width="450" show_faces="false" font="" id="facebook_like"></fb:like><script type="text/javascript">_ga.trackFacebook();</script> </div>   <div id="tags"> <span class="title">Tags</span> <div class="dotsontop"> <ul> <li>» <a href="/web/20120226123249/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/quadrocopter/" rel="tag">Quadrocopter</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20120226123249/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/remote-controlled/" rel="tag">Remote-controlled</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20120226123249/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/robotics/" rel="tag">Robotics</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20120226123249/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/robots/" rel="tag">Robots</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20120226123249/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/university-of-pennsylvania/" rel="tag">University of Pennsylvania</a></li> <li class="clear_both"></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="bing_unit"></div>  <span class="title" id="comments">User Comments (11)</span> <div class="dotsontop" id="comment_dots">  <div id="comment-106594" class="a_comment"> <p>that's a trip. GOOD work guys these might be useful when we manage to kill off all of the bee's, we are going to need something to do pollination and with a little tweaking looks like you might have something amazing. it makes me feel better. once again nice work ! jay Florida </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Jay Finke</span> <span class="date">- February 2, 2012 @ 08:36 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106639" class="a_comment"> <p>Wow. The flips were cool, but the figure-8 maneuver was astounding!!! </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Dan Stillings</span> <span class="date">- February 2, 2012 @ 09:49 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106690" class="a_comment"> <p>No way! Watch the video!!!! Amazing </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Mark Smith</span> <span class="date">- February 2, 2012 @ 01:18 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106711" class="a_comment"> <p>Wow!! Would love to use this to record incidents like the ones going on in Tibet where we have no access, no press etc. PLUS, the added bonus of the shock of seeing these things flying in formation might incite the idea of alien intervention, which always has the potential to quell petty disputes among humans. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Vic</span> <span class="date">- February 2, 2012 @ 02:19 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106750" class="a_comment"> <p>Okay guys , I am now officially impressed with what you have done here. </p> <p>I can appreciate the amount of work that you have put into the project. </p> <p>Great work and astounding results. </p> <p>Good Job !!! </p> <p></p> <p>Jim </p> <p></p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Jim Andrews</span> <span class="date">- February 2, 2012 @ 04:50 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106783" class="a_comment"> <p>Extremely interesting - and the technological implications are immense. </p> <p>Not least with the future of your local annual air display - which may now move indoors on bad-weather flying days and be performed to scale...Remote-controlled livestock control is another option, or Emergency Rescue scenarios - with a swarm of IR-equipped "seeker" drones looking for casualties inside burning/smoke-filled/collapsing buildings. </p> <p>The downside is the "Terminator" effect - we all have to be on the lookout for 'the Rise of the Machines'... </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Nick Herbert</span> <span class="date">- February 2, 2012 @ 07:02 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106810" class="a_comment"> <p>Border patrol could use this to fallow persons on interest who leave in separate directions or during a firefight keeping track of persons locations around the A.O. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Robert DuBois</span> <span class="date">- February 3, 2012 @ 12:26 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106942" class="a_comment"> <p></p> <p>Fantastic work. Swarm formation software is not just important for flying but for all forms of imdividual communal transport units from ground to water to air. </p> <p></p> <p>Can be applied to cars, tramways, boats, New personal transport vehicles and the Jetsons is finally here - the Skyway!! </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Gavin Greaves</span> <span class="date">- February 3, 2012 @ 10:48 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106981" class="a_comment"> <p>Wonderful work. How many of them do I need to carry me to work - autonomously? </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Mark A</span> <span class="date">- February 3, 2012 @ 07:24 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-106990" class="a_comment"> <p>Why is 'Ride of the Valkyries' suddenly running through my head? </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Kim Holder</span> <span class="date">- February 3, 2012 @ 08:47 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-107110" class="a_comment"> <p>yea, Robert...coming to a border near us...or a window..... </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120226123249im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Walt Stawicki</span> <span class="date">- February 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