Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl 51 halftime show Sunday lighted up the sky with a coordinated swarm of several hundred aerial drones. The drone created a red and blue moving star formation; an American flag. They’re called Shooting Stars and were previously used in a holiday show at Disney World.
This is the latest project in Intel’s quest to take drones from individuals to fleets. This is Ender’s Game brought to life. Just as in Orson Scott Card’s book, one person commands the group, sending instructions and monitoring the drones’ health. And Intel says its limitless in its scale, able to control more than 10,000 drones at a time.
One of the secret to Intel’s Shooting Star program is a desktop software suite of programs. The drones’ routes are pre-programmed and each drone does its own thing. The drones do not talk to each other and they lack the hardware to detect collisions. The software determines routes that eliminates collisions.
The drone are simple. They’re about the weight of a volleyball. The housing is Styrofoam and there are simple metal cages around the four props. They are designed to be assembled in less than 15 minutes and Intel builds the drone in a facility in Germany. There are no screws and everything snaps together. And then on the bottom of the drone is the large, multicolored LED light that paints the sky.
It’s the first time drone have been used in a live TV event, and the first time the robotic aircraft have appeared in the Super Bowl.
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