Autonomous Helicopters Teach Themselves to Fly Stunts

I read their paper and also spent the last year learning to fly RC helicopters. 1) it's EXEEDINGLY difficult to even FLY the flipping thing, 2) the computer learns it in 11 goes. Also - it can only "clean up" what the human did - so cannot find the 'perfect' trick - only an improvement on what the human did. Awesome. This RC heli could hover upside down for as long as the electricity and petrol lasted. I would have passed out from concentration. 5 minute flights are the limit for me !

It copies and pastes the perimeters into its program, and then cleans them up a bit.

Hope you know that a Terminator can be made that knows how to kill you fast and without emotions.. Ponder this....I think this is sky net right here beware...

Want to join the project? If you can program realtime flight control software, then perhaps you should apply for a post-graduate study. The procedures are published on the University websites.

Not that impressive actually. Watch some other videos of top pilots.

They already are. They have paintball gun missions with autonomous RC Helicopters.