100 dancing drones set Guinness World Record

A swarm of 100 drones performed a spectacular light show at an airport near Hamburg in Germany and the feat found its way into the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously” and that’s quite possibly true, if we understand “airborne simultaneously” to mean “under the simultaneous control of a single team.”

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In September, the FAA estimated at least 1 million drones would be sold in the holiday season alone; it’s hard to imagine that there have never been at least 100 in the sky at the same time before this.

The 100 drones danced to an orchestra performing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The drones carried multicoloured lights, and were controlled by computers using Intel software. The drones moved and their lights changed creating a spectacle halway between laser light show and robot fireworks.

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