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Quadrocopter doing ping-pong! INSANE!

submitted by BicycleRepairMan

1 decade 3 years 3 weeks ago

Ball juggling experiments in the ETH Flying Machine Arena

By Mark Müller, Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D'Andrea

http://www.flyingmachinearena.org
IDSC, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Common question: This is not human-piloted (please see the overview vid). The vehicles/ball are tracked by an overhead motion capture system and controlled by a pair of computers.

13 Comments

ready for competition, i think.

Selektaa says...

Impressive how quickly it gets off the ground. The thrust/weight ratio must be nuts.

Oh, and the whole automated machine vision flying thing. I guess thats cool too.

Seen these guys before, in 1987.
Movie's called "Batteries Not Included".

Ya, you make a joke about welcoming new overlords, blah blah, whatever, but now... now they are making inroads into sports!

THEY SHALL NOT PASS!!!

One of these would be really useful for an army squad when grenades are being thrown at ya...

Nice rally!

swedishfriend says...

>> ^raverman:

One of these would be really useful for an army squad when grenades are being thrown at ya...

That would actually work! But the enemy would be tipped off where troops were by seeing the helicopters hovering above the soldiers heads. be good to protect a camp or a spot you are holding and they could fly low and fast in-between spots.

Well, if the robots don't take over the world, at least they will dominate the sports circuit.

Do the quadrocopters get upset when they miss the ball?

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 8:41am PDT - promote requested by kasinator.

freernuts says...

Still waitin for the overdubbed versions.>> ^Reefie:

Do the quadrocopters get upset when they miss the ball?

I got that impression!!!!!

>> ^Reefie:

Do the quadrocopters get upset when they miss the ball?

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