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Startup Natilus’s prototype aims to complete its first water trials, with flight tests to followPhoto: NatilusPhoto: NatilusFreight Flier: An employee paints a prototype cargo drone at a Natilus facility in Richmond, Calif.
Two years after WorldWar II, billionaire Howard Hughes personally piloted his “Spruce Goose” troop transport aircraft on the first and only flight of the largest seaplane ever built. It lasted barely a minute. Now, more than 70 years later, a U.S. startup is

Without GPS or any other kind of external localization, a dozen of UPenn's quadrotors can fly in formation outdoorsImage: UPenn/YouTubeUPenn's autonomous quadrotor swarm doesn't need GPS or external localization to fly indoors or outdoors.
The vast majority of the fancy autonomous flying we've seen from quadrotors has relied on some kind of external localization for position information. Usually it's a motion capture system, sometimes it's GPS, but either way, there's a little bit of cheating in