KMel Robotics was founded in 2011 by Alex Kushleyev and Daniel Mellinger (hence the K and the Mel), both graduates of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Together with Vijay Kumar, they have been aiming to help scientists and engineers create smarter, faster and more flexible robots by mimicking the swarming behaviours of birds, fish and insects. The video below shows what quadcopters can get up to, once the lab is closed for the night.