Video: Robot droplets - a liquid swarm that thinks

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…swarm of ping pong balls?

Satellite swarm could blast away asteroids

Scottish engineers have come up with a new way of dealing with asteroids that threaten the Earth - firing lasers at them from a swarm of small satellites flying in formation.

Video: Nano quadcopters swarm in GRASP Lab



Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have successfully coordinated the flight patterns of a number of small quadcopters. 



Mini robots hook up to fly in a swarm

A team at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich has developed intelligent robots that can dock with each other and fly in a swarm.