VIDEO: US Navy now capable of controlling a swarm fleet of 50 drones simultaneously

09/18/2015 - 21:02


Up, up and away. A team at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has succeeded in launching 50 drones that were all controlled by a single person.

“To our knowledge, this is a world record for the number of UAVs under single operator control, by quite a long way,” says project lead Kevin Jones.

The team aims to develop swarming behaviours that give the benefits of having multiple drones without the need for a large number of operators.

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