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The truce with the quadrocopters continues. After offering an olive branch in the form of holiday melodies, the four-rotored autonomous vehicles are shifting their efforts from intimidating displays of aerial agility to feats of carefully choreographed construction. Check out the video, after the break, of a tower being built by a team of quadrocopters in the GRASP Lab at the University of ...

When demonstrating innovative concepts in robotics, engineers are inevitably subjected to a good-natured Skynet-ribbing about contributing to the wholesale extinction of the human race. It really doesn't help the scientists' cause, though, when language like "precise aggressive maneuvers" is used to describe an autonomous and intimidating flying object -- particularly one with deadly, twirling ...