The kids at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (or EPFL) have been cooking up quite the bit lately, as this video demonstrates. Not usually have they put together the scalable system that will let any drifting robot roost in a tree or identical makeup, though right away they’ve gone as well as grown the platform for swarming air vehicles (with Linux, nonetheless). Said to be the largest network of its kind, a ten SMAVNET overflow members control their own rise, airspeed, as well as turn rate based upon input from a onboard gyroscope as well as pressure sensors. The goal is to develop low price devices which can be deployed in mess areas to creat ad hoc communications networks, nonetheless you can’t assistance though think this would have the best Christmas benefaction ever. See for yourself after the mangle.

Via Engadget