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TED 2012 Favorites: Robots that fly...and cooperate
I found this TED talk to be impressive not only in terms of the technology being demonstrated (amazing "news from the future") but also as a masterpiece of teaching. Vijay Kumar doesn't just give a stunning demo of his cooperative flying robots, but also explains how they work. It's a masterpiece of teaching. This is a model TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
As more of the videos from this year's TED go up, I will share the talks that I found most compelling.
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Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Video on TED.com
TED Talks In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far...
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1 comment:
Watched this today, really interesting!!
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