Robotics Technology Center

Micro-Helicopter Smart Flyfire Swarm to Create Giant 3D Display

Creating gigantic 3D displays is an art that all artists do in a matter of days or months. But a swarm of flyfires can actually do 3D displays instantaneously and magnificently.

These swarm of smart flyfires are actually micro-helicopters as tiny as a 5 inches, but can literally synchronize themselves to show different gigantic 3D images every specified time.

The collaborators MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory and ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory) has hit upon this brilliant idea of making enormous morph-capable 3D displays from individual “smart pixels” known as flyfire consisting of micro- helicopters carrying LEDs.

This promising technology is a free-forming Flyfire canvas which can shift itself from one shape to another.The individual smart pixels are physically enjoined in transforming images from one state to another, allowing the Flyfire canvas to demonstrate animations in spatial environment.

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