Athletic Quadcopters

Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn.

YOUTUBE w2itwFJCgFQ Published on Jun 11, 2013

In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together.

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Some things he said that I noticed:

"mathematical models tell us what is and what isn't possible"

"the flip is difficult because position feedback isn't fast enough, has to learn to flip through practice"