Can inertial navigation make ground-robot swarms real?

Two startups, working together for just under a week, may have found a way around the biggest obstacle to deploying swarms of ground robots: the need for GPS-free navigation in a small package. Swarmbotics AI, which makes 100-pound autonomous robots, is teaming up with TERN, whose navigation software doesn’t need GPS, the companies announced Wednesday.The Army has been seeking alternatives to the spoofable, jammable satellite-based system for years.“The current environment has taught us tha