DARPA's Autonomous Microdrones Designed to Patrol Inside Houses

DARPA is now announcing a new wave of these microdrones under the Fast Lightweight Autonomy program. As the name indicates, they ideally would like humans to be completely removed from the control process.

For now, they clearly state "overseas" as the theater of operation, but it doesn't take much imagination to see how these microdrones could be applied in the U.S., especially amid an increasingly tense urban environment in the wake of confrontations with domestic police .... http://www.techswarm.com