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Raffaello D'Andrea: The athletic power of quadcopters

submitted by Procrastinatron
1 decade 1 year 3 months 1 week ago

(Description via YouTube)

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.

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Procrastinatron says...

*promote

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, August 15th, 2013 10:32am PDT - promote requested by original submitter Procrastinatron.

I must say I got a kick out of the (unintentional?) Skynet reference at 10:10.

"Machines can not only perform dynamic maneuvers on their own, they can do it collectively. These three quads are cooperatively carrying a skynet."

Oh noes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wlsd9mljiU#t=32s

Sniper007 says...

Did dude at 11:03 hock a loogie indoors on the floor?

Caught that, he spit something....Looks like a nail-biter-His fifteen minutes

Did dude at 11:03 hock a loogie indoors on the floor?

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