FLOCKS OF DRONES
Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, Rockwell and NASA are testing whether solar-powered drones can autonomously fly in bird-like formations to reduce the total drag of the flock. They have built a prototype battery-powered drone and hope to build five drones to test the formation...
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