Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) believes that the solution to restoring communications is to exploit aerial robot swarming. It's a very simple idea: Send up a fleet of small, lightweight electric robot aeroplanes with GPS and networking devices and rely on swarming algorithms to make sure they remain on station while covering the desired area.
They even look charming–creepy as hell, but charming.
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It Conquered the World! They, like the It, could only build eight of the things, too. Somewhere in a cave in Switzerland is a turnip-shaped engineering professor. With fangly teeth.
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