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U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks

Posted by timothy on from the hit-squads-want-these dept.

Freddybear writes "University of Pennsylvania's GRASP lab posted new video of their scary fast maneuverable quad-rotor drone. It can now fly through openings (hoops) which are themselves moving." The entire list of GRASP projects is worth crawling through.

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  1. Way cool by Dyinobal · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dunno what all the practical applications of this tech are but all I can say is, I want one.

    1. Re:Way cool by mSparks43 · · Score: 2, Funny

      still no match for airsoft i suspect:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HGmoxotBi8

  2. Re:Killing me in my sleep? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could use it to track autonomous Audis, better than crashing helicopters.

  3. Re:Weaponize! by andoman2000 · · Score: 1, Funny

    as soon as we can figure out how to mount the sharks to it.

  4. Jedi training by xynopsis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like the lightsaber training ball used by Luke

  5. They zippin' through your window by kg8484 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tryna kill you in your sleep
    So y'all need to
    Hide your kids, hide your wife
    Hide your kids, hide your wife
    And hide your husband
    Cuz they killin' errbody out here

  6. Re:Killing me in my sleep? by TangoMargarine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, imagine being killed by a flying army of vuvuzelas. Yech.

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  7. Re:1:00 by Freddybear · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's probably taken a few hits while they were debugging. Ouch!