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title: The Astounding Athletic Power of Quadcopters — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-astounding-athletic-power-of-quadcopters/
date: 2013-08-20
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# The Astounding Athletic Power of Quadcopters

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.