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Maybe I missed it, but contra the title, I did not see any robots flying in the TED venue. Since I've seen most of these other vids (but not that), that's what
by javert 15y ago
Maybe I missed it, but contra the title, I did not see any robots flying in the TED venue. Since I've seen most of these other vids (but not that), that's what I was looking for :(
- falcolas 15y agoThe quadroter in the gentleman's hand landed there at the start of the talk, but otherwise it was all in the videos.
- robotresearcher 15y agoOn of the students is carrying an RC remote when he comes on stage at the end. It would be very hard to fly these little guys autonomously at TED, since they use the off-board Vicon multi-camera IR motion-tracking system in their control loop. That's a big, expensive installation in the lab. Kumar's group is very well respected in the field. They've had several years of strong innovation. Vijay is really good at what he does, and a nice guy.
- falcolas 15y agoThey were discussing quadroters that don't use the motion tracking system as well - ones that use the onboard kinect to do the spatial mapping.
- jjwiseman 15y agoIt might have been too much effort to set up the multi-camera Vicon motion capture system at TED, calibrate it, etc. And unless they put them inside an aviary, which would also obscure the drones, I'd be a little worried about losing control of a machine with several exposed spinning blades in an auditorium full of people.
- cdibona 15y agoThey've set up exactly those before at Ted, but no, they didn't do so this year.
- tommoor 15y agoYep, most misleading title ever.