Researchers at Zheijang University in Hangzhou have trained a drone swarm smart to fly autonomously through an unfamiliar forest, without a centralized control system. The drones communicated with each other and tracked a man moving through the forest. They published the results in a paper in the journal Science Robotics.

As with all things – this could be used to send drones into collapsed buildings to search for survivors, or used on the battlefield of the future. Since this is already 2 years old, you can imagine how much better such a system is today.

Articles:

• https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/5/23058160/drone-swarm-autonomous-navigation-dense-forest-person-tracking