If I was a grad student at Stanford, this is the program I'd want in on. The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control, or STARMAC, is a UAV being developed there with some incredible capabilities. With four rotor blades, GPS-based technologies, ultrasonic ranging, and a host of sensors to compliment an impressive on-board computer processor, this little guy could be the predecessor to futuristic spy drones used by the military (or video game developers). Check out in the video when they start throwing beach balls at it. We used to do stuff like that in college and they never called it research.
(via Gizmodo)
(via Gizmodo)
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