This handout photo long exposure shot shows the flight of a flock of autonomous drones during an experiment near Budapest, Hungary. — AP/Eotvos Lorand University
BUDAPEST, Hungary: Moving in a dense cloud, like throngs of people walking across a crowded public square, 100 drones manoeuvre through the night sky in Hungary’s capital, the result of over a decade of research and experimentation that scientists believe could change the future of unmanned flight.
The behaviour of the swarm, made up of autonomous drones that make their own real-time decisions on collision avoidance and trajectory planning without pre-programming or centralised control, is guided by research the Hungarian scientists performed on the collective movements of creatures from the natural world.
