Against the gray sky, the black robots hum. The swarm moves without words, mapping the neighborhood below, a flurry of buzzing and plotting, sharp angles and short orbits, creating in real time a blanket of surveillance over the selected objective. Part of the OFFSET (OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics) program, under the purview of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the quadcopters are pieces of a greater whole, an incremental step to providing an expansive robot's-eye view to humans fighting on the ground.
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