Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme with Artificial Swarm Intelligence by GRASP

Flying Robot Quadrotors Perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The Quadrotors, play this "couch guitar" by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the "couch guitar".

Flying Quadrotors = Quadricopters

These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.

Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab.

This video premiered at the TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California on February 29, 2012. Deputy Dean for Education and GRASP lab member Vijay Kumar presented some of this groundbreaking work at the TED2012 conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment, and design.

The engineers from Penn, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, have formed a company called KMel Robotics that will design and market these quadrotors.

More information: http://www.upenn.edu/spotlights/penn-...

Video Produced and Directed by Kurtis Sensenig
Quadrotors and Instruments by Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar

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[amssheikh]

its nano hahahah i can see it with naked eyes lolx.....technically wrong description......

[estebanvr1987]

lol you have reason, they are normal robots not nano-robots. XD

[uholyfool]

successfully distracting us from the birth of Skynet

[estebanvr1987]

haha, next time they will play Terminator Theme... lol ;)

[zassounotsukushi]

Well at least our future robot overlords have a sense of humor.

[ncoloss1972]

Great work.

How much of the sensing and processing is done 'offboard' and how transferrable are your algorithms from the offboard situation to an onboard situation - assuming miniaturisation of sensor electronics and computing occurs as we anticipate.

[Greenlittlepiggy]

It's happening

[JezUK456]

Love the ending lol. Very good

[enzoaveroldi]

Bravissimo!!!!

[Happycorp5]

This could go to ways they are applied to civilians so art with light shows or most likely the military will apply them to satisfy their greed for knowledge

[pilotz32]

How is it possible to have 6 dislikes about this??? F***ing trolls ...

[Omar abdul hadi]

if these were actually nano that would be scary as hell

[thomasw809]

Damn future.....you so scary.

[joshmccaughan]

This is amazing, I dont know why but I laughed pretty hard at 1:22