A swarm could be nasty.

[Lineareagle]

[texasaggie97]

That is super cool. Now if you could just ride those things around like a scooter and it would be super cool .

 

Thanks for the post

[upflying]

Great platform for a camera.

[Selden]

Unbelievable; the swarm must have been controlled by a master computer, as I can't imagine human operators maintaining such precision spacing. Of course, there's a reason there were nets on the walls of that room: Quadrocopters: blooper reel edition

 

Camera Platform

[Joe Frickin' Friday]

Unbelievable; the swarm must have been controlled by a master computer, as I can't imagine human operators maintaining such precision spacing. Of course, there's a reason there were nets on the walls of that room: Quadrocopters: blooper reel edition

 

Looking at some of the tricks in that blooper reel, it appears there's something more complex than simple preprogrammed flight paths going on. At one point an experimenter tosses a hula hoop, and the aircraft tries to pass through the falling hoop. It failed (this time), but the fact that they are trying to do this suggests that maybe they've got some sort of machine-vision system that's trying to track the ring so it can judge where it ought to fly.

 

 

[Kathy R]

All of the cartoons are coming true

[Lineareagle]

I agree that there must be some logic process tied into some optics. The copter was actually dead on, it just didn't account for the falling 'upside' of the hoop.

Fascinating stuff.

[Selden]

Looking at some of the tricks in that blooper reel, it appears there's something more complex than simple preprogrammed flight paths going on. At one point an experimenter tosses a hula hoop, and the aircraft tries to pass through the falling hoop. It failed (this time), but the fact that they are trying to do this suggests that maybe they've got some sort of machine-vision system that's trying to track the ring so it can judge where it ought to fly.

That probably explains why I can't find a cheap Chinese quadrotor at Fry's Electronics.

[Glenn Reed]

Looking at some of the tricks in that blooper reel, it appears there's something more complex than simple preprogrammed flight paths going on. At one point an experimenter tosses a hula hoop, and the aircraft tries to pass through the falling hoop. It failed (this time), but the fact that they are trying to do this suggests that maybe they've got some sort of machine-vision system that's trying to track the ring so it can judge where it ought to fly.

That probably explains why I can't find a cheap Chinese quadrotor at Fry's Electronics.

 

Yet.

[ESokoloff]

Quadrocopters: blooper reel edition

 

00:34 - 00:42 reminded me of

[ESokoloff]

More here.

[Bologna]

Universal Sports broadcasts the World Cup Ski races and they had some of these following the racers down the hill during an event and it was very cool!