Curious Displays: Flyfire Without The Fly

Posted Feb 24, 2010 4:13 AM

We posted last week about MIT's FlyFire project, which takes swarms of little flying robots and uses them to create dynamic 3D images. Last September, Julia Tsao put together a conceptual project for her graduate thesis that embodies a similar set of ideas... Using swarms of small robots working together to form displays. She took the concept to a few different places, though, by enabling the robots to interact with other objects both directly and indirectly. 'Course, it's easy to get robots to do whatever you want in a concept video, but there are some interesting ideas here. My third favorite part of the project is the conceptual remote control:

My second favorite part is the conceptual kill switch:

And my favorite part of all are the warning labels:

I can't quite make out that last one... Something about diving into a swimming pool if the bots are trying to murder you? Sounds like it might actually work, good plan!

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