Stay SaaSy published a great piece on the mistakes to avoid when structuring software teams, with advice such as defining clear ownership and team member redundancy.
Researchers at MIT demonstrated a multiagent trajectory planner anti-collision system for drones. Each drone calculates and broadcasts its trajectory, which the other drones using to generate their own paths. The updated version of the system accounts for communication delays between the drones also.
Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have developed fibers with engineered reflectivity that can be woven into fabrics, and scanned under infrared light that act as barcodes to help with sorting and recycling.