TED 2012: autonomous flying robot swarms

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TED 2012: autonomous flying robot swarms

3 March 2012, 04:20

Amazing!

From TED 2012: flying autonomous robot swarms

Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Vijay Kumar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErEBkj_3PY

http://www.ted.com 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 te...

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3 March 2012, 04:59

Awesome. well worth the watch.

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4 March 2012, 18:17

Very cool. I saw my first quadracopter a couple of weeks ago. They are impressive little flying machines.

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