Tuesday 6 March 2012

flying quadrotors - small, agile ROBOTS that swarm and sense each others



This is one of the recent TED talks that really moved me. Quad-copters are not a that new in the robotics industry but these little flying things are just too amazing! They can not only team up and think of where to go or what to lift but also can fly through a flying hoop! thats right, a hoop thats just thrown in the air, this little robot flies right through it...

These robots were developed by Prof. Vijay Kumar and his team at uPenn and its certainly a video worth watching. 

Attached below is the TED video, please give it some time to load, I have embedded it into the post...


[Agile aerial] robots like this have many applications. You can send them inside buildings as first responders to look for intruders, maybe look for biochemical leaks … [or they] can be used for transporting cargo.” (Vijay Kumar)

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