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  • Versteh ich recht dass die Geräte zum Fliegen die Computer am Boden brauchen?

  • a simple i person version could be built[prototype has flown with one person],it would be almost fool proof,for added safety a ballistic chute could be added.Uses the same components,on a larger aluminum frame

  • Amazing Work Thanks for sharing it

  • Great vid!

  • Was für akkus bruuched ihr?? Und weli leischtig hend d motore??

    gseht so uus, als ob die ordendlich zupf hend...

  • Can I intern here?

  • future home security system

  • 1. Может ли на нем быть маленькая удаленная камера (с палец).

    2. Может ли на нем быть палка с электрошокером?

    3. Сколько 1 может летать и на какую высоту?

    4. Есть ли пульт управления?

    1. Could it be a small remote camera (with finger).

    2. Could it be to stick with electro shocker?

    3. How can a fly and to what height?

    4. Is there a remote control?

  • 2:42 is that on a boat?

  • 0:32 I used to get drunk here

  • Yes, yes, yes, but will it blend?

  • What kind of propellers are you using at 1:30? Are counter rotating flexible propellers for RC readily available and where? (Those would be a good investment for my quad, as I've broken quite a few ordinary ones)

  • @n33v33 great question i need some of these too....

  • Aperature

  • from 0:34 to 0:50 it looks like Aperture Laboratories :)

  • the robots operate off JavaScript? interesting. must be annoying for it to have an antenna wobbling around while it performs maneuvers and sutch

  • can I perhaps ask for published papers about this research if there're any please? I am preparing for my thesis work and would like to develop interface module for quadrocopter control. thanks in advance...

  • Aperture science facility found?

  • wow, was that a robot speaking or it's just me?

  • So we'll have YOU to blame for when we all have to bow down before our robot masters?

    I could live with that if it means we have some cool new tech out there. Keep up the fantastic work.

  • @AFLoneWolf Bow down to our robot masters for about 45 minutes until the batteries run out. Then put them in the cupboard because they're too dangerous to play with until we're older. Standard 6 year old at christmas rules, basically.

  • C++ to make this helicopter huh?

  • NOPE, can't find it on ebay yet.

  • shes such a retard... she let it hit the celling :S

  • We must shut down Skynet...Now!

  • coming to a store near you (Y)

  • This is absolutely incredible!! I would love to come for a tour.

  • @mrmikerhubarb this system was already developed in the technological level there to 25 years by NASA

  • 1:50 Roblox Scripting?

  • Balancing an inverted pendulum. Is this the most complex thing to acheive or are other tasks more difficult?

  • I like dis.

  • Very impressive, but as some commenters noted, the quadcopters aren't capable of doing much outside of the arena. What are the chances of solving that problem by using an on-board inertial navigation system (three orthogonal gyros and three accelerometers) for the quadcopter to be able to calculate its position  and orientation in space without using external cameras? Sure you'd need some other reference to correct for gyro drift, but then they would be able to fly anywhere.

  • @LMF5000 You could put a processor and some memory on the quadcopter itself and run the low-level algorithms of your current software on it using the position data from the on-board navigation sensors instead of cameras in the room. And in the next version, include an on-board camera and train the computer to use it to recognise things such as a special mark you'd place on each charging station for the robot to recognise them, and see and avoid hazardous obstacles such as walls.

  • This, this is Epic WIN.

  • And if mass produced these new conveyances would be affordable by the general public - if you can afford a Lexus, you could afford one of these. And within maybe 15 ~ 20 years, a low-end model could cost below 10,000 Euros.

  • @deanplmr

    Look at how badly some people drive. I wouldn't want them crashing quadrocopters into my house, thank you very much.

  • Your platform could be a great starting point for designing the next revolution in transportation. The trick would be to design a flight and navigation system that is totally "AI" automatic and controlled wirelessly by the cell grid (or similar grid approach). In this way, users would not need flight experience to control one of these. Merely entering a destination would be all that is required, with basic user steering and directional control. Altitude and speed is controlled by the system.

  • Indeed it would be difficult. But whosoever works all this out safely and reliably stands to really change the world. This could be the next "big thing" like microwave ovens or cell phones - something that could potentially jump-start the world's economy and enable a new mode of human transportation for the future. Some AI will be involved, and redundant flight systems as is with all aircraft. But with today's technology, it probably could be done. Large financial gains to be had!

  • So why can't a personal conveyance using a larger version of this design be offered to the public? With all the on-board "learning" and flight control algorithms controlling one of these it would make it virtually impossible to crash unless there was a serious technical failure in some part of the system. And with a four-motor "Quad-Lift" system, it could be designed with "Lift Redundancy" such that it could maintain level flight with any one of the motors shut down (in case a motor fails)

  • @deanplmr To answer your two points: 1) learning adds quite a bit of complexity -- for anything carrying people you really need it to be rock-solid. See fly-by-wire systems as examples. It'll get there, but a big challenge is making learning algorithms robust, and to keep them from "learning" the wrong thing. 2) The quadrocopters we use actually have no actuator redundancy: 1 motor fails = violent crash. A hexacopter, octocopter, or variable pitch quadrocopter does have some redundancy.

  • @UntitledTitle Shouldn't it be possible to maintain level flight with 1 failed motor? The 2 opposite motors would have to be able to at least carry the weight. Any inbalance perpendicular to the line between the 2 opposing motors will be dealt with by the remaining motor, either negative or positive lift.

  • @spookmineer Not currently. Two reasons: 1) Typical fixed-pitch air propellers are optimized to produce thrust in one direction (the reverse does produce a bit of thrust but the drag ratio is laughably huge). 2) Sensorless brushless motors, like we use, are difficult to reverse quickly. It takes time to spin them up -- this has to be done pretty much open-loop... time that you don't have if you're trying to stabilize roll with one motor.

  • @deanplmr they could also fit like a heavy fly wheel so if there is a a failure you can do a power off landing

  • @deanplmr idiot

  • @deanplmr Weather?

  • allowing the operator to set the craft down safely. The chance of two motors failing at the same time is exceedingly small. And local auto-navigation codecs could be sent wirelessly to the system via the cellular grid allowing rotor travelers to reach their destination by traveling along "freeways in the sky.

  • terribly explained.

  • they should install tasers into those things and allow them to detect movement. it would be some pretty awesome robot security.

  • nice work

    

  • skynet is here

  • crying narrator

  • government funded? I bet it is. 1984

  • fantastic...

  • 2011 flying saucer!!?

  • Nice. In the event they get a nervous breakdown after spending five days looking for a glitch, the arena doubles as a padded room.

    I wonder if there's a similar one off the shelf that you can control on your PC with a HOTAS and a camera. Would be nice flying around the neighborhood.

  • skynet, son.

    

  • this fkn sick, =O i want one ^^

  • i see how it pitches and rolls but how dose it yaw/spin?

  • @Nightshade2988 Two props spin clockwise, two counterclockwise. Spin one pair up, and the drag makes the quad spin (imagine a helicopter without a tail rotor).

  • im comming to destroy everything you've built before you doom us all

  • This is awesome!

    God I love living in an age of technology, who knows what this will lead to in the future. Flying cars? (I'm not saying this will lead to it, but wildly guessing).

    What I mean is, technology is amazing if used correctly and once our computer overlords take over I will do my best to please them xD

  • It's not CyberDyne. Arnie does not need a synthetic environment with 8(!) cameras to move around. These quadcopters are not autonomous - outside the flying machine arena they are useless. Now doing the same thing with local processing on the AR drone, fully autonomously, that would be impressive. I'd like to have something you can take with you on a game of tennis or badminton and that's not it.

  • Best Greetings from Cyberdyne Systems :-)

  • eth zurich kicks asses

  • 1:05 , What the heck is that o_o, it looks cool.

  • @poopdude Its the balancing cube (same lab): watch?v=gbT_XoSIlEo

  • @poopdude Let's hope that device won't summon the pyramidhead... 8/

  • Amazing!

  • Fucking flying robot juggles ball. epic!! adf.ly/322737/ball-juggler

  • watch?v=mCrUQH9qBQk

  • Aperture Science?

  • the mechine will take over the world oneday.we make them so smart

  • "when we were finished with the machine, we had some cake"

  • really not hard to fake this shit

  • I WANT TO WORK HERE!!!!

  • i can has flying machine?

  • Mount it with with the"small machine gun" and imagine the consequences....

  • dude... i want one hahaha

  • One thing that I don't understand. Are these copters controlled by humans via radio control, or are they self-guiding?

  • Science! F*ck yeah!

  • what type of batteries do you use for one of the flying machines and how long do they last?

  • @miklonish LiPo. Currently Thunderpower prolite v2 11.1V 2.1Ah (this isn't a promotion - just what we use). Around 20 min for hover.

  • @UntitledTitle thanks

  • @UntitledTitle When will people be able to buy it? :P

  • @miklonish I would assume from just watching this they use a Lithium Polymer because of there high discharge rates, voltage per cell and weigh less than most other batteries including lithium ion which power most computer electronics.

  • so...when can we expect hover-boards? (=D)

  • @cyclop41 October 21, 2015.

  • @NYBuildings lol, where's your source of information from?

  • @cyclop41 I saw it in a movie so it must be real. ;)

  • @NYBuildings hahaha, works for me :D

  • @cyclop41 according to back to the future: before 2015, so hurry up dammit! (=D)

  • @cyclop41 i want a hover board11

    11111111!!!!!!!

  • awesome

  • ...and all thanks to Microsoft in the first place...

  • For people who believes in UFOs, who says what those aliens are trying to do is just entertain us?

  • but how do they power it?

  • Now make the Green Goblins Flying machine! LOL

  • i want my drinks served like this!!

  • Black magic!!

  • his voice is so annoying

    

  • Gordon! Manhacks!

  • is that SHAZAM they are using???? hahaha I use that program for my econometrics class

  • @EvolutionOfTrance No, it's Visual Studio.

  • sounds like a giant ass bug lol

  • Where can I buy one? :)

    

  • @SkateLennekeTV its not for sell, theiy justmade it theiy dont have stock of them

  • Beginning of Skynet Central

  • @pawpcorn42 theyll collaborate with microsoft and make kinect quadrocopters

  • stupid ETH wasting money. you dont need more than a kinect, 4 motors and an arduino for this stuff to work.

    that entire room filled with X cameras, motion tracking the shit out of that thing is already outdated

  • The only thing they need is a laser.. Then they are ready to kick some ass!

  • God damn, manhacks. Also it looks like they're developing gunships too.

  • oh so i could sit on the couch fly this thing to the kitchen then my mom would put food on it and it would come back to me? nice...

  • I want that. cool

  • Gaming Revolution

    1st BeYBLADE

    2nd Yu-Gi-Oh 

    last QuadroCopter

    Lets DUEL!

  • I feel like I got to take out my crowbar and hit it like in half life.

  • Get a better speaker and a better mic, the guy sounds like he is being forced to do this

  • At the beginning they let a WOMAN fly this thing...

    Didnt they learned anything from woman drivers...

  • Mom:"So michelle do you want a dog?"

    daughter:"Nope, i want a quadrotor flying thingy!"

  • More technology for Skynet to use to kill your grand children.

  • impressed!!! great work!!!

  • sky net jokes are always funny until someone loses a planet to thermonuclear war.

  • I am so freaking impressed! :O

  • what they really meant to say was that they are Sky Net, and Judgement Day is inevitable.

  • haha they use C code...

  • Sounds like the guy from the Dharma Institute in Lost :P Makes it sound much more mysterious

  • I fell asleep because of the voice...

  • In some years the army will build their first war quadro copters^^

  • The Green Goblin uses this.

  • nice stuff!

    also he's a scientist ... not a voice actor

  • Europeans almost all use Windows still. Total win for the tech support industry. You really ought to find software for Unix, or possibly a Linux flavor. Your machinery and your sanity would thank you.

  • Now make the choppers in Avatar

  • I'm thinking hovering office assistance.. get me a cup of water from the cooler!

  • hence the beginning of SKYNET (Terminator)

  • Don't tell me this is programmed with ETH Oberon :P

  • saw this movie terminator 3 this shits ollllld

  • its now time to make my flying house outta these things,

    its gonna be epic!!!!

  • Wow, that's pretty cool. I'm currently studying C++, and hope to someday do stuff like this

  • Now all we need is a giant one with an insane supervillain and his henchman army to ride it

  • FUKKEN MANHACKS, GET OUT OF THERE!

  • cool....

  • all f&&*^ more UFO hoaxes will be coming

  • so that means we can have hovering cars in years to come? is it possible guys? :P

  • That's how Skynet got started, isn't it ?

  • так вот блять кто придумал летающие тарелки

  • 0:55

    FACEPLANT

  • So cool! they're like little electronic creatures.

  • The white platform thing at the end reminded me of the part in Mass Effect 2 when you're in the derelict reaper and there's hovering platforms and enemies are shooting at you from all directions

  • SKYNET!!!

  • add some razors on it and you have half life in real life

  • @pamirshknx manhacks!

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  • i thought this was like... 'NZT, it gives full control of your brain'.

    until i realised...

  • a lot of effort just to live out a 'batteries not included' fantasy

  • Wow, before you know it, we can all be like the Goblin from Spider-Man.

  • How much for one?

  • Hey, what kind of watch is that? It looks like a Skagen, but I don't think it is.

  • I wanna get high and play tennis with this magicall device all day <3

  • I Totally want one..

  • Skynet.

  • They are using the same techniq that games back in the PlayStation one day and still some today use.

  • ROBOT, NOW GO MAKE ME A SANDWICH

  • i know where i want to go on a field trip...

  • It can do a barrel roll !11

  • nice

  • This place is like aperture science !

  • i want one

  • The speaker sounds like that Asian Dharma Initiative dude from the show Lost