In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

Mr. K. Vijay Kumar retired IPS officer who served as the Chief of Special Taskforce of Tamil Nadu - the unit behind the encounter of the brigand Veerappan (which is known as Operation Cocoon), talked about the ways in which police force managed the operation without appropriate resources.