erf2026

Booth #90 is running. Here’s what we’re showing and why we think it’s relevant to the conversations happening at the European Robotics Forum this week.

A Decentralized Brushless Swarm

The centerpiece is an evolution of the Decentralized Brushless Swarm demo we published last year. Multiple Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless drones share a volume with no central trajectory planner. Each agent handles its own state estimation, neighbor awareness, and collision avoidance independently. The swarm is fault-tolerant by design: individual failures don’t cascade.

What makes this relevant as a testbed is not the flight itself, but what it lets you study. Decentralized coordination, emergent behavior, and the gap between simulated and physical multi-agent dynamics are all things you can actually probe here, at a scale and cost that makes iteration realistic.

The Swarming Interface

We’re showing a new interface for the first time at ERF. It surfaces per-agent state in real time: position, velocity, battery, role, giving you visibility into what the swarm is doing and why, not just the flight envelope. We’ll write up the technical details separately, but if you want to see it running, the booth is the right place.

A Touch of Magic!

We have built a magic wand. It is a Lighthouse-based device that lets you grab a drone, or a group of them, and steer with your hand. It started as a side project and ended up being a surprisingly good way to demonstrate how the positioning system responds to real-time input. Worth a look if you’re nearby.

Come Find Us

We’re at booth #90 through Thursday March 27. The conversations we’re most interested in are about research infrastructure: how teams design testbeds, what the handoff from simulation to hardware looks like in practice, and where small-scale indoor platforms fit into larger development pipelines.

If you’d like to set aside time for a more focused discussion, reach out at contact@bitcraze.io or the https://www.b2match.com/e/erf2026/meetings app.