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

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

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

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