SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters | Cirque du Soleil

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A short film from Cirque du Soleil, made with ETH Zurich and Verity Studios, in which performers interact live with a swarm of quadcopters. The drones move like characters in a choreographed piece.

HN people share it as an eye-catching use of drone swarms in live performance, in threads about robot swarms and Cirque adopting new tech.

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@bobochan2015 · in “Buzz: An Extensible Programming Language for Self-Organizing Robot Swarms”
Very cool. Cirque du Soleil (which is also based in Montreal) made an interesting movie featuring robot swarms last year in collaboration with ETH Zurich and Verity Studios: ▶ this video
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@MichaelAO2014 · in “SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@BIackSwan2014 · in “A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters [video]”
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@two2two2017 · in “Cirque du Soleil acquires Blue Man Group”
Both BMG and CdS have succeeded for so long due in part to their constant tooling with the latest tech. A couple of years ago CdS released a video called Spark exhibiting their take on drones. [0] [0] ▶ this video
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