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Quadrotor Craze
Quadrotors, or quadrocopters, are all the rage in hobby robotics. MIT has built a fully autonomous quadrotor that uses an onboard Kinect to navigate and map its surroundings while generating a visual representation of where the robot has flown.
Algorithms scan image frames from the camera and recognize objects within the environment to assign depth and color to the models. The robot runs all the programs and controls in real time without the use of any additional sensors (makezine.com/go/quadrotor).
Sweden-based Daedalus Projects aimed to get a PCB with four motors to fly, the result of which is the amazingly ...
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