In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams — for construction, surveying disasters and far more. At the University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar studies the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.

See how robots that fit in the palm of your hand work together to do various tasks including playing music.

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Robots that fly & cooperate by Vijay Kumar at TED