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Terrifying Flying Robot Quadrotors Perform the ‘James Bond’ Theme

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar, demonstrate the agility of their autonomous quadrotors by programming them to plunk out the James Bond theme music on a room full of instruments. Humans assign the robots a location in space and a time to get there, but the robots have to figure out how to navigate from point to point without colliding in midair. Kurtis Sensenig produced this dramatic video of the performance.

.gasp!.

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    This is so wonderful. The ending is the best part.
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    AHHHH these are the coolest robots.
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    Lab” that’ll make your skin crawl. But lets not kid ourselves. What makes...video so...
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    Wow. Just wow. If anybody still thinks these things are not going to be silently following us everywhere with infrared...
  10. ultrafluff reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    INCREDIBLE. we have some astoundingly powerful technology in our world today. i sincerely hope we use it for good.
  11. disparateoddities reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    I want a fleet of Quadrotors and I want them to play Sibelius’ “Pohjola’s Daughter” and then I want them to play Tool’s...
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    Holy shit you guys eyegasm This is incredible.
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    nerding the fuck out to this right now, i don’t care if it normally isn’t something i’d post here: deal with it.
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    yes. sheer awesome.
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