Watch flying robots cooperate, throw and catch balls
October 3, 2012
The Flying Machine Arena at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) offers a safe, controlled sandbox environment for testing mobile robots’ fast-paced motions, thanks to a high-precision localization system, high-performance radio links, easy-to-use software structure, and safety nets enclosing the space.
Video Source: ETH
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Comments (6)
by GatorALLin
more flying robot tricks here…. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
by asiwel
This is one of the ways that lunar material propelled into space by maglev accelerators and aimed at Lagrange points might be “caught” for ore processing and habitat construction.
by Bri
Let me rephrase that. You’ll be slated for deletion!
by Bri
Ooohhhhhh!!! Skynet will be so pleased!!! They look so much like the flying machines in the Terminator movies!! Look at them playing in the sand box! Soon they will be all grown up. They will learn from us, that if you don’t buy their glasses, they won’t play with you. In other words, if you don’t conform to future AI’s sense of what you should be doing, your fate will be decided in a micro second. The VIKI response will kick in, and if you fight back, your toast!!!!
by melajara
You mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
Appalling, isn’t it?
by Bri
“I’d like w plasma rifle in the forty watt range”". I don’t see any reason why an advanced AI would want anything to do with this kind of mentality. Everything including bees is a potential military weapon. The problem with humans is the lack of humanity. Just delete, I mean blow up an unwanted point of view.