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Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans
Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013.
Update with the full video below
Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session...
11 June 2013, by
Robohub Editors
How about we *not* make killer robots: Daniel Suarez at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Technology thriller author, most recently of the book Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez has been thinking about drones for some time. But as he says, as he stands onstage at TEDGlobal 2013, he’s not h...
11 June 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Athletic machines: Raffaello D’Andrea at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
“Athletic” is a term we use to describe human beings. But could it also be used to describe a machine?
In a demo recorded yesterday in his robot lab at TEDGlobal 2013, systems engineer Raffaell...
11 June 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Those Flying Things: The speakers in Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
When it comes to drones, a lot of ideas float in the ether. Technologists see potential for flying machines to help us in all sorts of unexpected ways, governments take measures that seem hard and fix...
11 June 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...
26 March 2013, by
Robert Morris
Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...
21 February 2013, by
Markus Waibel
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MotherboardTV documentary on drones
http://youtu.be/kwkxx84wXNo
This video, by MotherboardTV, was posted on YouTube in early December, but, at just over 50,000 views, it hasn't yet reached the audience it deserves.
Not knowing muc...
09 February 2013, by
John Payne
Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains feedback control and talks about the coming Machine Revolution
During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D'Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group's impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing, an...
04 February 2013, by
Markus Waibel
Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...
26 December 2012, by
David Pietrocola
Drone on YOMYOMF
http://youtu.be/u8PzkGM60Lc
YOMYOMF is one of a long, and growing, list of YouTube funded channels. Drone is a four-part series of short-format videos, telling the story of a humanoid com...
17 October 2012, by
John Payne