Posted 03.01.2012 at 6:20 pm
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Quadcopter on Percussion
We’ve written so much about the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab and their adorably awesome autonomous quadcopters that we kind of feel like we’ve watched them grow up. We’ve watched them learn how to move around, watched them play with building blocks, and watched them learn how to interact with each other. So we’ll never forget this, our favorite quadcopters’ first music recital.
This video really needs no more introduction. The song is the James Bond Theme, with quadcopters on piano, guitar, percussion, maracas, you name it. They even rock a makeshift instrument made of strings stretched across a couch frame. Enjoy.
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Friggin awesome.
It must have taken so much programming effort to choreograph this.
so awsome, go robotics!
This video was taken from the TED talk if want to watch the whole thing, its a little more in depth, its titled Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate. Also at the end of the video, Vijay Kumar says it only took Alex Kushleyev and Daniel Mellinger 3 days to make the video of the robots playing music.
This is AMAZING!!!
only a matter of time before they regularly appear in OK GO videos. just prior to obtaining consciousness and taking over the world
Yes,it is great surprising!:)
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Well that was fun to watch! Very cool!
I just had a thought. I wonder if these things could be use to patrol a farm and keep the birds, animals and bugs away and reduce pesticides. When their batteries get low, they return and a new one ventures out. I am just day dreaming; it maybe a dumb idea..
Very cool robotic technology!
Not bad, not bad. There's also a youtube video by ETH Zurich of a quadcopter playing jingle bells on the piano one note at a time using a small rubber finger attached to it (instead of the large wooden things used in this video).