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 ...

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 ...

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 was first covered by CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday. Watch Perdix, the secretive Pentagon program dropping tiny drones from jets Named after a character in Greek mythology, the Perdix is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...