Submission + - Flying Borg Honeycomb (cnet.com)
smitty777 writes: The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has created some simple flying robots that can dock with each other in mid-air. The plastic, single prop robots can fly into the air separately and join to create a multi-unit conglomeration. As interesting as this sounds, I've been scratching my head trying to figure out a good application for this technology. Perhaps they could take off as a unit and break apart later to perform tasks? Apparently, the grouped configuration is a bit more difficult to control than the individual units.