When helicopters playing tennis [amazing tech news]

[va!n]

I found an interesing short german article with video of a new technolgy, where helicopters (flying-roboters) know how to react/fly to play tennis with you. Sadly the very short article and video is german, but it is worth looking at!

http://www.gmx.net/themen/wissen/mensch/027fery


Btw, what about a own special section on this forum for all tech news (software == like phone7, windows8... hardware and so on?)

[LittleWhite]

About the session: Why not ... but we have to collect and to put the news here (and maybe put it in a better shape with sources / little description / asking questions | reflections)

Otherwise, I saw another video about it, and someone told me that the helicopters are controlled by remote computer.

[Kirl]

That's cool! Would love to play around with such real-world stuff myself and move out of the virtual space.

I dabbled a bit with robotics (lego mindstorm) in school but only very basic stuff. Cool to think todays kids have such awesome programmable toys at their disposal.

[benny!]

Something really related to tech/flying/robots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo&feature=player_embedded

[LittleWhite]

What is the autonomy of these robots ?