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Crashing into walls: Airburr takes a counter-intuitive approach to navigation | IEEE Spectrum
While other UAVs use sophisticated sensors and algorithms to navigate, EPFL’s tough little Airburr uses a random-direction algorithm and a bare minimum of sensors to make its way around places other bots wouldn’t dare fly.
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tags: Airburr, EPFL, Prototype, Research, robot
Hallie Siegel
robotics editor-at-large
Hallie Siegel
robotics editor-at-large
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