Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Vijay Kumar

[LKINTELLIGENCE]

*Big salute to the teacher for acknowledging recognition of his students, giving them importance. Good leadership skill, no doubt his students excel.*

[CainanParker]

It's amazing how smart some people are. Hats off to the engineers behind this!

[isaacisraeldelgadomoctezum]

Yeah that's my teacher :) thumps up!

[ravi.annadurai]

Amazing . Vijay and team has taken robotics to newer levels . I think this can be deployed in many life saving situations .

[m.g.phadnis]

Congratulations Professor Vijay kumar and your team for this superb achievement. I have been examiner of graduate projects at various Engineering and Technology Institutes in India and I wish that the project guides take clue from your work to go deeper than "toy" level projects. I admire the math analysis done by your team particularly the 12 D analysis. I wish our Labs in India too take the culture of aiming at excellence and do project planning as meticulously as done by you.

[freeman]

makes you ask yourself, " what am I doing with my life?"

[sstrama]

Excellent presentation Mr. Vijay Kumar and excellent work by the engineers. I am sure these technology will make impact in future in many applications where we find hard to reach.  

[zildjiandrummer]

i just saw an article written in 1910 about what technology would be like in 100 years, and this would have literally melted the author's brain out of his head

[manguy]

I think they wanted that tune to be the James Bond theme, but not get hit with a copyright violation.

[lallasahu]

The best thing which I loved most in this video is the way of explanation and the example of Ants.

[rishavkothari]

something really amazing last few minutes were something more amazing than i ever saw
how could anyone dislike this

[bevvox]

Pure wonder, the "simplicity" of ingenious innovation. This is, quite literally, the most I've been impressed in a very long time...
I've seen this before, but I'm so happy to find out that this is available on YouTube as well

[tanmayjoshi]

That's the only person I've seen using mathematical equations in a TED talk!

[gulllars]

The level of skill involved in making this, and making it work so well, is insane. I can't wait till these become avalible to the public to play with. Programming these to do stuff would be great project work for engineering students.

[ShawnD]

Reminds me of NNBot from counter-strike. It was a unqiue bot program that never needed waypoints. The bots would wander around, learn the map, and get better with time.

[xm]

This was 10 years ago
Excited to know where we're at today at 2023

[sarahszabo]

Epic music at the end. It kind of reminded me of the tanks from Ghost in the Shell.

[EnigmaHood]

@Sanngot Explosives aren't heavy, presumably with improvements in technology, a similar robot can carry more weight too. You can use this as a high maneuver, autonomous missile.

[roiferreach]

I am blown away now that I know drones are not just for playing only. Nature is the best inspiration.

[mbreckenridge]

I am amazed at the mathematics of N-space and the rapidity of the calculations necessary to make robots to fly, communicate and work together. The applications of this technology has incredible dimensions that go far beyond war.