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Lighting is crucial to the art of photography. But lights
are cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, and outside the studio, it can be
prohibitively difficult to position them where, ideally, they ought to go.
Researchers at MIT and Cornell University hope to change
that by providing photographers with squadrons of small, light-equipped
autonomous robots that automatically assume the positions necessary to produce
lighting effects specified through a simple, intuitive, camera-mounted
interface.