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22 July 2011
Wow: SmartBird in the wild, swarmed by seagulls
This video was shot by Flickr user ldrose two hours after the live demo of SmartBird inside the auditorium at TEDGlobal. Festo engineers brought the bird outside to Holyrood Park, in central Edinburgh, and sent it up into the sky. Eyewitnesses tell us that, almost immediately, out of an empty sky, SmartBird was swarmed by seagulls, dozens of them, each taking a turn to dive at the giant bird. The video tells the story … and YouTube user finesoftwarewritings captures the whole sequence in the 4-minute clip below:
Here’s another SmartBird swarm video, from Paul Kemp-Robertson at Contagious magazine …
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Jul 29 2011
Birds are nice to look at, also there’s a lot to learn about this bird swarm, these birds do not have any commands to follow but we can see that they are very organized or else they must have collided with each other.
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And yet another swarm video – http://youtu.be/q2ueKjf80wA