Mini Flying Drones Cluster, Dance, and Demonstrate the Future of Flight

Quadrocopters: One very likely future for all sorts of autonomous flying vehicles. New research is even showing how these 'bots can cluster together in swarms to lift anything from human-sized upwards. Sci-fi never seemed so real.

Advances in batteries and motor miniaturization enabled the craze of those mini indoors helicopters that've swept the world in recent years, and Quadrocopter research has made astonishing leaps and bounds in what a small autonomous flying vehicle can do. Versions of...