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Lionel Jacques

Joggobot turns a quadrocopter into a running companion - 3 views

www.gizmag.com/...22899

quadrocopter FUN AI

shared by Lionel Jacques on 12 Jun 12 - No Cached
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  • Lionel Jacques on 12 Jun 12
     
    Joggobot turns a quadrocopter into a running companion Researchers from RMIT in Melbourne, Australia have developed a flying running companion called Joggobot. The system uses the built-in camera on a commercially-available Parrot AR Drone quadrocopter to track the position of a jogger, and fly a few feet out in front.
Ian Carnelli

Quadrocopter Ball Juggling - 3 views

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quadrocopter AI

shared by Ian Carnelli on 01 Apr 11 - No Cached
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  • Ian Carnelli on 01 Apr 11
     
    probably not very new but certainly impressive!
  • Joris _ on 03 Apr 11
LeopoldS

Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics - YouTube - 2 views

m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=pp89tTDxXuI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dpp89tTDxXuI

quadrocopter gadget AI robotics

shared by LeopoldS on 24 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 24 Mar 13
     
    very impressive!
  • johannessimon81 on 25 Mar 13
     
    Very cool - I like also like the little tumble that the copter does after it launches the pole. It look like it is happy of what it just did :-D
LeopoldS

Always Innovating: MeCam - 2 views

www.alwaysinnovating.com/...mecam.htm

AI robotics gadget

shared by LeopoldS on 29 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 29 Jan 13
     
    open source open hardware quadrocopter ! next platform for Astrodrone ?
  • Ma Ru on 30 Jan 13
     
    MSRP suggests it's not designed to survive landing.
Francesco Biscani

Quadrocopters can now fly through thrown hoops, the end really is nigh (video) -- Engadget - 2 views

www.engadget.com/...-thrown-hoops-the-end-really-i

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shared by Francesco Biscani on 19 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 19 Sep 10
     
    Impressive video!
Joris _

Kinect Steers Quadrocopter Drone to Search and Destroy | Popular Science - 0 views

www.popsci.com/...t-hack-guides-uav-quadrocopter

INF MAD

shared by Joris _ on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
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santecarloni

TacoCopter - Tacos Delivered Straight to Your Home With GPS Guided Quadcopters | Singul... - 3 views

singularityhub.com/...me-with-gps-guided-quadcopters

technology Quadcopters

shared by santecarloni on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
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  • santecarloni on 27 Mar 12
     
    Around since last July, the TacoCopter website suddenly grabbed the web's attention days ago with its claim that they will take your order via a smartphone and deliver tacos straight to your location with GPS-guided, unmanned quadcopters....
  • Ma Ru on 27 Mar 12
     
    According to the picture of the quadrocopter, you end up being chased by four flying, GPS-guided rotating blades...
H H

Mind over mechanics - 2 views

www1.umn.edu/...UR_CONTENT_444147.html

shared by H H on 13 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • H H on 13 Aug 13
     
    In a jaw-dropping feat of engineering, electronics turn a person's thoughts into commands for a drone. Using a brain-computer interface technology pioneered by University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor Bin He, several young people have learned to use their thoughts to steer a flying robot around a gym, making it turn, rise, dip, and even sail through a ring.
  • Thijs Versloot on 14 Aug 13
     
    Pretty cool, so when is this going to be available for our quadrocopter?
johannessimon81

Google combines skycrane, VTOL and lifting wing to make drone deliveries - 6 views

www.wired.com/...ffort-to-build-delivery-drones

technology drone_delivery VTOL skycrane FUN soundtrack

shared by johannessimon81 on 30 Aug 14 - No Cached
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  • johannessimon81 on 30 Aug 14
     
    Nice video featuring the technology. Plus it comes with a good soundtrack! Google's project wing uses a lifting wing concept (more fuel efficient than normal airplane layouts and MUCH more efficient than quadrocopters) but it equips the plane with engines strong enough to hover in a nose up position, allowing vertical landing and takeoff. For the delivery of packages the drone does not even need to land - it can lower them on a wire - much like the skycrane concept used to deliver the Curiosity rover on Mars. Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. Anyways, the video is great for its soundtrack alone! ;-P
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  • Paul N on 31 Aug 14
     
    could we just use genetic algorithms to evolve these shapes and layouts? :P
  • Ma Ru on 31 Aug 14
     
    > Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. I think apart from coolness using a skycrane helps keep the rotating knives away from the recipient...
  • Thijs Versloot on 01 Sep 14
     
    Honest question, are we ever going to see this in practice? I mean besides some niche application somewhere, isn't it fundamentally flawed or do I need to keep my window opened on the 3rd floor without a balcony when I ordered something from DX? Its pretty cool yes, but practical?
  • Guido de Croon on 02 Sep 14
     
    Package delivery is indeed more complicated than it may seem at first sight, although solutions are possible for instance by restricting delivery to distribution centers. What we really need of course is some really efficient and robust AI to navigate without any problems in urban areas : ) The hybrid is interesting since it combines the advantage of a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (and hover), and a wing for more efficient forward flight. Challenges lie in the control of the vehicle under any angle and all that this entails also for higher levels of control. Our lab has first used this concept a few years ago for the DARPA UAVforge challenge, and we had two hybrids in our entry last year for the IMAV 2013 (for some shaky images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7XgRK7pMoU ).
  • Thijs Versloot on 04 Sep 14
     
    Fair enough, but even if you consider advanced/robust/efficient AI, why would you use a drone? Do we envision hundreds of drones above our heads in the street instead of UPS vans, or postmen, considering delivers letters might be more easily achievable. I am not so sure if personal delivery will take this route. On the other hand, if the system would work smoothly, I can image that I'm send a mail with the question whether I'm home (or they might know already from my personal GPS tracker) and then notify me that they are launching my DVD and it will come crashing into my door in 5min.
  • Paul N on 08 Sep 14
     
    I'm more curios how they're planning to keep people from stealing the drones. I could do with a drone army myself and having cheap amazon or google drones flying about sounds like a decent source.
Marcus Maertens

Big Hero 6's Programmable Nanobots Are on the Horizon - 2 views

futurism.com/...-programmable-nanobots-horizon

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shared by Marcus Maertens on 09 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 09 Dec 15
     
    This collaborating swarm of drones acts as 3D pixels (voxels) to create giant, flying interactive displays.
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Dec 15
     
    I have never understood the flying part of these things. Isn't it really impracticle to have all those tiny quadrocopters zooming around. My money is on holography or still a google glass type of device, if only considering the energy requirements for doing anything kinetically.
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