{"id":139083,"date":"2022-05-08T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/drone-swarms-can-now-fly-autonomously-through-thick-forest"},"modified":"2022-05-08T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:02:35","slug":"drone-swarms-can-now-fly-autonomously-through-thick-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/drone-swarms-can-now-fly-autonomously-through-thick-forest","title":{"rendered":"Drone swarms can now fly autonomously through thick forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drone-swarms-can-now-fly-autonomously-through-thick-forest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A swarm of 10 bright blue drones lifts off in a bamboo forest in China, then swerves its way between cluttered branches, bushes and over uneven ground as it autonomously navigates the best flight path through the woods.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, led by scientists at Zhejiang University, evokes scenes from <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/science+fiction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">science fiction <\/a>\u2014and the authors in fact cite films such as \u201cStar Wars,\u201d \u201cPrometheus\u201d and \u201cBlade Runner 2049\u201d in the opening of their paper published Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, we take a step forward (to) such a future,\u201d wrote the team, led by Xin Zhou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swarm of 10 bright blue drones lifts off in a bamboo forest in China, then swerves its way between cluttered branches, bushes and over uneven ground as it autonomously navigates the best flight path through the woods. The experiment, led by scientists at Zhejiang University, evokes scenes from science fiction \u2014and the authors in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}