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MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs (www.livescience.com)
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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And it sucks, when you think inside Star Wars, such small drones are used only in medical or expensive surveillance and military applications.

But in real life it can really be a swarm of things worse than scarabs in The Mummy.