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Flying Robots Juggle With Frightening Accuracy

by Abby Seiff on March 29, 2011 at 01:20 PM


Zurich-based roboticists have developed a type of flying robot that plays hacky sack with other robots demonstrates an unprecedented level of communication and control. The quadrocepters may not look like much (as a sawed-off badminton racket makes up its playing surface), but they do sport cutting-edge guts that allow them to sense and react to changes in their environments. In the above instance, change takes the form of a ball that the 'copters bandy around like adorable stoners deathly proto-soldiers. Either way, horrifyingly accurate.

Tags: BadIdeas, FlyingRobot, hacky-sack, quadrocopter, quadrocopters, robot, roboticist, robots, top

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