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Indoor Autonomous Helicopter

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This is the complete platform for indoor autonomous flight, developed under Nick Roy in the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL.

Comments (60)

Ha! Take that Japan! Oh wait you made a robot then can impregnate women? and poops real working lightsabers? and it’s backed by Honda’s five year powertrain warranty? Oh, never mind then…

Posted 1 month by almostafighter

wooww it’s awesome!!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:26

panel upravleniya )) habr

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:42

AXYETb

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:55

Ebat-kopat’!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:25

lol

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:47

this is awesome. good job cal-tech

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:53

2 raza axyet’! habr

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:23

vo zaebis’! pust mishej lovit!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:11

inscription on control panel on Russian! O_o

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:44

bhb

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:52

What if they used an echolocation technology?

Posted 1 month by Stevendm

lol

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:10

But will it kill Zombies?

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:30

Cool, but I can it kill Zombies?

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:05

Green is good

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:12

Wow stanford does some cool stuff.

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:24

Welcome. Welcome to City 17. It’s safer here.

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:13

Solyary, interesno, na dolgo hvatit ?

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:33

haha, a vysoty to ne opredelyaet

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:06

Nice stability

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:29

And they just skip te part where the blades hitting the border making it crash. Its very nice but still have some major vonarabilities

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:35

Amazing sensing algorithms! However, I’m left wondering about the physical design. Did the team consider using a blimp instead of continuously running props? If so, what were the design decisions that lead to the choice of props? I suppose size profile was a consideration?

Posted 1 month by pkassebaum

I can’t wait until they mount a cattle prod on this and let it loose in the computer lab!

Posted 1 month by dingoperson

Yeah, I thought that looked fishy…

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:35

i know

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:10

Very cool. Great job MIT!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:59

neither is this bot!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:01

I want one!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:35

I Want One!!!!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:42

In Soviet Russia, window flies through you!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:23

this is a strange comments system

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:06

The princess is in the other castle.

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:21

EXPENSIVE WHEN CRASHED

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:15

haha

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:57

Or raptors?

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:37

My skin keeps me, in, and the germs, out.

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:12

The question is, will it blend?

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:48

So easy to shoot down!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:42

Laser also scans for zombies.

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:04

Cool!!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:47

Ahhhhh my eyes!!!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:06

Congrats, looks like you’ve created yourself a flying mouse that can get its cheese w/o any issues.

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:12

Are you crazy. Let it go into production first.

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:49

Great Job guys

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:59

just testing this comment system

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:00:47

I’d like to see how big is the remote control!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:01

I’d like to see how big is the remote control!!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:16

Show!!!

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:07

You’re thinking of future models. lol

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:02:30

How do I disable these damn comments?

Posted 1 month by Anonymous 00:01:13

cool!

Posted 26 days by Anonymous 00:01:19

I’m a Monkey’s Unkle. Intellectual Merrengue Underneath. I Must Urinate. No dude, it’s spelled ‘emo’, and it isn’t even cool if helicopters are emo anymore. Move on!

Posted 21 days by Anonymous 00:01:01

Camera? Can you say bathroom-spy-cam-bot? I can, fapfapfapfap

Posted 21 days by Anonymous 00:01:34

Autonomously? I am pretty sure Chinny helped out immensely. Srsly, i would nver hink of gypping Chinny out of his due respects and credits. He is a pimp, and a playa.

Posted 21 days by Anonymous 00:02:34

AYHSMB Keep out of my flower box

Posted 21 days by Anonymous 00:02:55

How are you?

Posted 18 days by Anonymous 00:02:30

Amayzing machine. Much more advanced than your normal indoor helicopter

Posted 10 days by IndoorHeli

OH GOD HOW DID THIS GET HERE I AM NOT GOOD WITH COMPUTER

Posted 7 days by Anonymous 00:00:46

Seriously, I mean these comments are so distracting.. I hate this comment thingy. Is this is seriously from MIT?

Posted 7 days by Anonymous 00:02:15

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