In the Guinness World Records category of Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Airborne Simultaneously, the award goes to…Intel.
It happened back in November (although we’re just getting a press notice now) in Linz, Austria, where Intel teamed up with Austria’s Ars Electronica Futurelab for the occasion.
The LED-equipped quadcopters, weighing just 1.5 pounds each, were manufactured by the German company Ascending Technologies, which Intel just acquired on January 4, 2016.
Ascending Technologies made headlines on DNEWS this past December when they showed off precision software that gave drones the capability of painting holiday-based “light images” in the sky.
In this latest show, dubbed Drone 100, the swarm of drones climbed to an altitude of about 328 feet and then danced a choreographed routine that ended in a large Intel logo painted in the night sky.
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Although precision drone swarms perform beautiful displays, they actually have a practical purpose. The software the coordinates their movements is used to program drones to inspect bridges and tunnels, to potential build structures, and to also carry out military operations.
via Gizmag and Ars Electronica
