This is a pretty exciting TED talk in regards to dropne technologies and related devices.  A brief intro can be found here:

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D’Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D’Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together — and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.

The drone area is one of strong debate.  On one hand there could be incredible time saving deployments and uses of such devices.  On the other hand privacy rights could be in question.  if nothing else this thing is super cool.

Watch this quadcopter in the video on the next page

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