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A new navigation system enables a swarm of 10 lightweight drones to fly together without crashing into one another or obstacles, even in challenging places such as forests. Drones can compute their location and find a path to follow using a panoply of sensors, which can be expensive and unwieldy. Shrinking down a drone often involves getting rid of key components, impacting its ability to travel safely. Xin Zhou at Zhejiang University in China and his colleagues have developed a new method that reduces the size and hardware requirements of a drone while keeping its computing nous. The palm-sized, 300-gram drone uses off-the-shelf computer components powered by a 100-gram battery that can keep it aloft for up to 11 minutes. The drone has a camera that feeds real-time footage to its processing unit.

There's a good chance you've seen a drone swarm. Maybe not in person, but probably televised during a New Year's celebration. A drone swarm occurs when a large number of the flying robots take to the skies in sync. It isn't a coincidence that they almost always fly in open outdoor areas. For these robotic fliers, it can be difficult to navigate in tight spaces without running into each other or environmental obstacles.