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Cirque du Soleil
Indoor show drones make history on Broadway
Over the past year, 398 audiences of up to 2,000 people witnessed an octet of colorful lampshades perform an airborne choreography during Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway show Paramour, which ran until ...
14 June 2017, by
Christian Hoffmann
Flying robots perform 100th show on Broadway, using new localization technology and algorithms
Since April, a troupe of eight flying machines has been performing in a Cirque du Soleil Broadway show called Paramour. This group of quadcopters has now completed its first 100 shows in front of a li...
29 July 2016, by
Bill Keays and Markus Waibel
Quadrotors vs CGI: A Q&A with the makers of Sparked
If you thought "SPARKED" - the new short film by Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios - is too real-looking to be CGI, you were right. But why go to all the trouble of using quadrotors to ...
24 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
We've seen robots on stage before: Humanoids have been featured in theater productions in Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, and industrial robots have played parts in dance performances and other stage...
22 September 2014, by
Markus Waibel
