U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks

Freddybear writes "University of Pennsylvania's GRASP lab posted new video of their scary fast maneuverable quad-rotor drone. It can now fly through openings (hoops) which are themselves moving." The entire list of GRASP projects is worth crawling through.

Way cool

[Dyinobal]

I dunno what all the practical applications of this tech are but all I can say is, I want one.

Re:Killing me in my sleep?

[Anonymous Coward]

They could use it to track autonomous Audis, better than crashing helicopters.

Re:Weaponize!

[andoman2000]

as soon as we can figure out how to mount the sharks to it.

Re:Way cool

[mSparks43]

still no match for airsoft i suspect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HGmoxotBi8 [youtube.com]

Jedi training

[xynopsis]

Looks like the lightsaber training ball used by Luke

They zippin' through your window

[kg8484]

Tryna kill you in your sleep
So y'all need to
Hide your kids, hide your wife
Hide your kids, hide your wife
And hide your husband
Cuz they killin' errbody out here

Re:Killing me in my sleep?

[TangoMargarine]

Yeah, imagine being killed by a flying army of vuvuzelas. Yech.

Re:1:00

[Freddybear]

He's probably taken a few hits while they were debugging. Ouch!