IDG Contributor Network: Here come the robot swarms
At a symposium concerned with the advances and regulatory issues pertaining to the burgeoning area of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, aka "drones"), Dr. Richard Kelley of the University of Nevada at Reno brought up something that is still oscillating in my head: In almost every article or discussion on drones, the machines are talked about in the singular, i.e., the drone. What he brought up is so logical an extension of Moore's Law that it seems positively inevitable. We're going to see, everywhere and in abundance, drone swarms.
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