Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
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In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D"Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D"Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.
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