Why Drone Swarms Are More Useful After War Ends

Drone swarms are mostly used by the military but struggle in real combat due to cost, tech limits, and ethical issues. However, they show huge promise in humanitarian demining by improving speed, accuracy, and safety through autonomous, coordinated operations - potentially revolutionizing how mines are detected and cleared.

If you google drone swarms, the military dominates the conversation. But just because it's the primary use case doesn’t mean it’s the most effective one. It’s more a reflection of drones’ origins as military tools. So when new developments around drones pop up, military applications are the default association.

But the thing is, the way this technology is usually used doesn’t work well in warfare. I’ll explain the three key reasons in the piece. Meanwhile, in humanitarian demining, this tech might be the only viable path to real automation. That means ...