This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent David Martin and producer Mary Walsh reported on the development of an autonomous drone called the Perdix, bringing viewers a rare glimpse of the future of ...

The Pentagon’s secretive Strategic Capabilities Office has been testing micro-drones that can be dropped from moving fighter jets for nearly two years — and for the first time, there is video ...

The drone is called Perdix. An unlikely name for an unlikely engine of revolution. Roper, head of a once-secret Pentagon organization called the Strategic Capabilities Office, remembers the first ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Pentagon successfully showed off its Perdix miniature drones which can work together to attack enemies like a swarm of killer bees. Follow BI Video: On Twitter ...

Billed by the US Department of Defense (DoD) as the world's largest micro-drone swarm, the Perdix drones were launched last October from three F/A-18 Super Hornets and autonomously carried out a ...

What differentiates the Strategic Capabilities Office’s unmanned aerial vehicle called Perdix isn’t just its soda-bottle size — far smaller than LOCUST’s meter-long Coyote UAVs — or ...

Footage released shows three F/A-18 Super Hornets dropping a swarm of 103 Perdix micro-drones for a flight demonstration. The drone swarm then buzzes around a number of targets and moves into ...

Part of the Pentagon’s Perdix project, developed by MIT’s Lincoln Labs, these unmanned autonomous vehicles fly as a swarm, reeling and pitching like a flock of crows. “They flash in the sun ...

The test, conducted in October 2016 and documented on Sunday’s CBS News program “60 Minutes”, consisted of 103 Perdix drones launched from three F/A-18 Super Hornets. The micro-drones demonstrated ...

The Perdix autonomous drone operates in cooperative swarms of 20 or more, working together towards a single goal. Named after a character from Greek mythology that was changed into a partridge ...