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China team sets Guinness record with swarm of 116 autonomous drones
The 116 autonomous underwater vehicles, called TH-618s, followed a preset 500-metre route for 34 minutes with no human intervention.
A team in China set a Guinness World Record for the most autonomous underwater vehicles operating simultaneously, using a swarm of 116 drones in a pool test.
The record was set by researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University in collaboration with Xian Tianhe Maritime Technologies, and was certified by Guinness World Records officials.
The trial took place on August 29 in a 50-metre by 20-metre pool, with the TH-618s deployed in sequence to perform autonomous underwater formation navigation.
According to the university, the vehicles carried out the route for 34 minutes over 500 metres, using real-time data to follow preset instructions without any human intervention.