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Stanford quadcopters rock!

Posted by Chris Anderson on July 3, 2008 at 1:00pm

We've enjoyed watching the development of Stanford's STARMAC II quadcopters, and this video does a good job of showing why: the 6 vehicles are light, incredibly accurate in both GPS and ultrasonic position sensing, and robust.

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Jack Crossfire July 3, 2008 at 5:36pm

Helis vs quadcopters.
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Chris Anderson July 3, 2008 at 2:53pm

Jack, can you clarify that a bit? What's less than what? Helis vs quadcopters?
Jack Crossfire July 3, 2008 at 2:36pm

Less vibration. Less blade vortex interaction. Less weather vaning. Less exposed rotors. Really short flight time. All the money is in swarm & obstacle avoidance research. There's nothing in that research which actually requires aircraft.

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