# This Optical System Lets Drone Swarms Coordinate Even When Jamming Succeeds

- slug: this-optical-system-lets-drone-swarms-coordinate-even-when-jamming-succeeds
- date: 2026-03-23
- category: Robotics

Drone swarms have a communication problem, and the solution may be light.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded research and development center operated by MIT for the U.S.

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