Our Robot Swarms will Defeat you!

Over at Winds of Change, Joe Katzman links to a Defense Industry Daily article about the use of UAV swarms and satelites to photograph and collect the layout of cities in order to create a virtuallized reality, i.e. 3-D maps of cities based upon just gathered information. Of course, there are many civilian applications of the process also. I find the idea of swarms of UAVs instantly mapping an area great.