www.ted.com In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to support.ted.com

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www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives www.facebook.com

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Dec. 2 - A team of scientists has demonstrated that a coordinated group of pre-programmed, autonomous robots can do the job of building workers, constructing a six meter high tower without any human intervention. Architects say this new technology paves the way for new methods of engineering buildings of the future. Georgina Cooper reports.

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Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this "couch guitar" by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the "couch guitar". These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments. Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab. This video premiered at the TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California on February 29, 2012. Deputy Dean for Education and GRASP lab member Vijay Kumar presented some of this groundbreaking work at the TED2012 conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment, and design. The engineers from Penn, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, have formed a company called KMel Robotics that will design and market these quadrotors. More information: www.upenn.edu Video Produced and Directed by Kurtis Sensenig Quadrotors and Instruments by Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar

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Flying Robot Birds Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, its a bit of both. Presenting the swinglet CAM, the latest into UAV technology."

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More info: hybrid.eecs.berkeley.edu This work is part of the STARMAC Project in the Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Berkeley (EECS department). hybrid.eecs.berkeley.edu Researcher: Patrick Bouffard PI: Prof. Claire Tomlin Our lab's Ascending Technologies [1] Pelican quadrotor, flying autonomously and avoiding obstacles. The attached Microsoft Kinect [2] delivers a point cloud to the onboard computer via the ROS [3] kinect driver, which uses the OpenKinect/Freenect [4] project's driver for hardware access. A sample consensus algorithm [5] fits a planar model to the points on the floor, and this planar model is fed into the controller as the sensed altitude. All processing is done on the on-board 1.6 GHz Intel Atom based computer, running Linux (Ubuntu 10.04). A VICON [6] motion capture system is used to provide the other necessary degrees of freedom (lateral and yaw) and acts as a safety backup to the Kinect altitude--in case of a dropout in the altitude reading from the Kinect data, the VICON based reading is used instead. In this video however, the safety backup was not needed. [1] www.asctec.de [2] http [3] www.ros.org [4] openkinect.org [5] http [6] www.vicon.com

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Researchers at the Swiss Federal institute of technology in Lausanne have developed an autopilot drone, which -- combined with a special software -- can create 3D aerial images. The project has now become a spin-off company, senseFLY, which is trying to find a market for the device. Research into new applications for the drone is continuing, looking at how several of the devices can be put into the air simultaneously like a flock. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have invented a robot which suggests tree-dwellers flew first. Report by Jeremy Barnes. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com

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Small, winged insects have a reputation for accidentally buzzing into closed windows or swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the research of Robert Wood, assistant professor of engineering and applied sciences, may cause you to look twice at your next fly...

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Read more on: www.zeitnews.org Yesterday night the first installation to be built by flying machines opened its doors to the public. An hour or so after the Opening, after most of the crowd had gone to drink champagne in the building next door, I snuck upstairs and recorded a few short clips of the quadrocopters. The installation, called "Flight Assembled Architecture", was conceived and built by teams led by my colleagues Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler as well as Raffaello D'Andrea at the ETH Zurich. It illustrates a radically new way of thinking about materializing architecture: Use a multitude of mobile flying agents working in parallel and acting together as a scalable production means. As you can see in the video, the quadrocopters are programmed to interact, lift, transport and assemble small modules in order to erect a building. The tower is actually a 1:100 model of a "vertical village" with a height of 600 meters and housing 30'000 inhabitants. To learn more about the technology (control architecture, collision avoidance and freeway based flight, prick placement, safety systems, etc.) and architectural aspects (geographic location, transit times, access plans, structural and wind tunnel analysis, etc.), have a look at www.idsc.ethz.ch

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Fast, safe transitions of multiple quadrocopters are often required in the Flying Machine Arena. In this video, we use an algorithm based on convex optimization to plan collision-free trajectories. In the first part of the video, the destination points are selected ahead of time and collision-free trajectories are pre-computed. All the trajectories are stored before execution. In the second part of the video, however, the next set of destination points is picked at random while the vehicles are still en-route, demonstrating that the algorithm is fast enough to be used in real-time. * Project by Federico Augugliaro, Angela Schoellig and Raffaello D'Andrea Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Based on the work by Yang Wang, Ekine Akuiyibo, Stephen Boyd Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, USA * Filmed at ETH Flying Machine Arena www.FlyingMachineArena.org

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Ball juggling experiments with quadrotors in the ETH Flying Machine Arena By Mark Müller, Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D'Andrea www.flyingmachinearena.org IDSC, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Common question This is not human-piloted (please see the overview vid). The vehicles/ball are tracked by an overhead motion capture system and controlled by a pair of computers.

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Learn the physics behind how quadrotors fly and find out how they can by themselves without human help.

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A little robot that is controlled by a phone. Really nice I want one like right now, it flies really nice.

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Robot Quadrotors Perform Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this "couch guitar" by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the "couch guitar". These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments. Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab. This video premiered at the TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California on February 29, 2012. Deputy Dean for Education and GRASP lab member Vijay Kumar presented some of this groundbreaking work at the TED2012 conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment, and design. The engineers from Penn, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, have formed a company called KMel Robotics that will design and market these quadrotors.

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This completely passive mechanism allows a quadrotor to perch, using only the weight of the quadrotor to grip the perch. The method is inspired by a tendon that allows birds to sleep while perching. More detail can be found in the paper "Avian-Inspired Passive Perching Mechanism for Robotic Rotorcraft," which can be found on the Utah Telerobotics Lab web page.

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Video of the FESTO AirJelly www.festo.com This new concept of a jelly fish that flies through the air has been presented by Festo at the 2008 Hannover Messe in Germany. Please read out blogpost airshipworld.blogspot.com for more information. Copyright by Festo put on Youtube because the Video did not work on the Website

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Flying ROBOTS? Airhogs/Spinmaster/Silverlit has done it again. Here, I test the new Robo Copter. It tips over easily on take offs or landings, but once you figure out how to control that, it is a very smooth and a fun machine to fly. It is easier than the Havocs. I understand these are also available from Donovan's Hobby Center in Sioux Falls, SD with free shipping in the USA. (1-800-279-6945) (And no, I am not being compensated by them) They are just good guys. I like mine, and glad I bought it. (Around $50)

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MIT researchers have developed a new use for the Microsoft Kinect system - a robot that flies without help from humans.

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This custom quad-rotor flying robot was demo'd at ICRA 2007 (Internation Conference on Robotics & Automation) in Rome Italy. It is remote controlled, but uses stabilizing sensors. I wrote about the conference experience here: www.societyofrobots.com

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Johnny discovers the BF Gang (bad guys), Unicorn (good guys), and takes control of Giant Robot, his ally in the fight for good over evil.

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Aerodynamic SmartBird flight model - Bird flight deciphered: www.festo.com Aerodynamisches Flugmodell SmartBird - Vogelflug entschlüsselt: www.festo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds - one of the oldest dreams of humankind. This bionic technology-bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly and land autonomously -- with no additional drive mechanism. Its wings not only beat up and down, but also twist at specific angles. This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive unit, which in combination with a complex control system attains an unprecedented level of efficiency in flight operation. Festo has thus succeeded for the first time in creating an energy-efficient technical adaptation of this model from nature. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SmartBird ist ein ultraleichtes, aber leistungsstarkes Flugmodell mit einer hervorragenden Aerodynamik und maximaler Agilität. Mit SmartBird ist es Festo gelungen, einen der ältesten Menschheitsträume zu entschlüsseln: den Vogelflug. Der von der Silbermöwe inspirierte, bionische Technologieträger kann von selbst starten, fliegen und landen - ohne zusätzlichen Antrieb. Seine <b>...</b>

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Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics. Special thanks to Professor Daniel Lee for his support.

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Video of robot Epson showed in 2004. The geeks in the robot department keep out doing themselves. The robot, 3.35 inches tall and 0.4 ounces, follows a flight-route program sent by Bluetooth wireless from a computer. On board is a 32-bit microcontroller, a super-thin motor, a digital camera that sends blurry images and a tiny gyro-sensor, which the company said may also appear in digital cameras and cell phones as soon as this year to help deliver more precise images. THIS WAS DONE IN 2004. So I wonder what Epson has up there sleeve in 2010?

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DigInfo - movie.diginfo.tv Related Link www.wizinc.co.jp Currently still in the development stage, Airbots by Wiz Corporation are flying robots built for fighting. Airbots designer Kensaku Kusunoki talks about the development process: "There are many toys that you can play with on the ground, such as remote control cars, but there aren't so many toys out there that you can play with in the air. So if you're thinking about designing a remote controlled flying toy, you normally think of a helicopter shape, but in order to reduce the cost i decided to make it wired to the controller. The next thing I thought about was how to make it lightweight, so I came up with the idea of using styrofoam in the shape of a robot for the body. Lastly, I wanted to make it easy use to without a lot of complex controls, so i made it work simply with just a pull of a switch." The design of the Airbot is yet to be finalized but distributor Happinet Corporation are planning for a November release in Japan.

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The DelFly II, developed by Delft University of Technology, weighs 16grams, can fly at 30mph, hovers, and has streaming video

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GeekBeat.TV #332: revision3.com Go shopping at a real-world Android Store, the newest advancement in non-smudge glass, robot construction workers, and the world's fastest RC car. 00:28 Brick-and-Mortar Android Store Apple has their physical stores, Microsoft has theirs, now there's a brick-and-mortar Android store opening in Melbourne, Australia. Just the place to compare features on your next Android phone purchase! 00:54 Smudge-Free Glass Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research are developing a smudge free glass for your iPhone! 01:23 Flying Robots Build Tower Are flying robots the construction workers of tomorrow? These quadrocopters built a 20-foot tower at a French museum. 02:28 World's Fastest RC Car An electric car for $1100 sounds like a great deal, right? Okay, so the Traxxas XO-1 is an RC car, but still it's an awesome one, and the world's fastest. Watch our holiday gift guide playlist here: www.youtube.com See our holiday gift guide: geekbeat.tv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Like, Comment & Share Today's Episode Find us everywhere! Facebook, Twitter & YouTube! Cali on Twitter: twitter.com Cali on Facebook: facebook.com GeekBeatTV website: www.geekbeat.tv GeekBeatTV on Twitter twitter.com GeekBeatTV on Facebook: facebook.com

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually, it's both. Presenting the robotic SmartBird that looks and flies just like the real thing. The other side of normal. Where else to find Diagonal View... FOLLOW us on Twitter: ow.ly or LIKE us on Facebook: ow.ly Strange talents, shocking stories, dangerous stunts...see it all here @ www.youtube.com

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A remote-controlled electric flying robot with four fixed-propeller rotors, onboard inertial sensors and automatic stabilization control by onboard computer. more info at www.optrolyte.co.za?page=projects

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Caltech scientists steal flight techniques from birds and insects to build microbats; small devices with flapping wings that can fly cameras into places humans can not go. Such flying robots could end up exploring Mars and beyond. Watch the full-length version of this video on Aviation.com: www.aviation.com Credits: CALTECH

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Today on The Daily Brief we took a look at the following topics: For Comic-Con updates, visit our friends at IGN: www.ign.com Robot Bird: www.ted.com Talking Vajayjay's: www.adweek.com Don't forget to hit the like button, and if you're one of the few peopled that read all the way to this point, leave a comment that says "Flying Potatoes", and you'll be featured on the next Daily Brief!

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Flying robots at Hannover Messe April 2009. Produced by German company Festo. The robots are built to imitate the movements of penguins that are swimming.

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This 22cm, 1.5gram gliding robot can autonomously detect and fly towards a light source. Its tail is acutated using a novel 0.2gram Shape Memory Alloy (muscle wire) acutator. For more inforamation about its context and other bioinspired jumping and flying robots, please visit lis.epfl.ch

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This one is a an amazing piece of engineering. It is flying, floating and decending on its own.

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