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There seems to be no end to the marvels that quadrocopters can achieve. Now, though, researchers have got ‘em throwing and catching poles like acrobats—and it’s amazing.
Carried out by researchers from Zurich’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Controls, the mini drones are capable of launching—and then catching!—an inverted pendulum (umm, a pole). Man, I would really struggle to do that, and these drones can do it perfectly. If you want to know more about how it all works Robohub has a great breakdown. Otherwise, just sit in awe like me. [YouTube via Verge]
This Team of Quadrocopters Can Throw and Catch Better Than You
Watching 49 Quadrocopters Fly and Swarm Across the Night Sky Is Pretty Freaky
How Olympic Pole Vaulters Travel with Their Gigantic Poles
is just me , or does anyone else want to work at this place ? this seems a really fun job !
Matt
Trust me, being an engineering student, developing the microelectronics code and calculations for those copters aren’t fun. I had to do a simple one for an assembly line timer. I almost committed suicide on mplab.
Please can we have more quadrocopter articles, they are my favourite type of article right now, I genuinely can’t get enough of them.
I’m aware the above comes across as very sarcastic, it’s not.
This is very neat, but a little part of me still keeps thinking are these the forerunners to HK’s?
Thanks for sharing, brilliant.
I LIKE! (with Borat accent ofcourse!)
We are so utterly FU$%ED!
oh yes we are indeed!