MIT’s Drone Cloud

Jeremy Lyon @ 06-12-2006

MIT, funded by Boeing, is building software to control a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (in this case helicopters). Says Jonathan How, aeronautics professor, “You can have a student essentially operate this from their bedroom.” And thus the participatory panopticon is born, on the wings of bored college students and open source drone clouds. [digg]

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