AirBurr UAV Navigates By Crashing Into Things 74
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from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.
from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.
Zothecula writes "If you've ever watched a fly trying to find its way around a house, you might have noticed that it didn't take a particularly graceful approach – it probably bounced off a lot of windows and walls, until by process of elimination, it found a route that was clear. Well, researchers at Switzerland's EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Systems are taking that same approach with the latest version of their autonomous AirBurr UAV – it's built to run into things, in order to map and navigate its environment."
Drunk (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Drunk (Score:4, Funny)
This is the way my wife navigates when she's sober.
Re:Drunk (Score:5, Funny)
This method has certainly been used by many to detect whether the toilet seat is in the correct position.
Re:Sounds like robotics class in college (Score:5, Funny)
I find this bash quote to be appropriate:
#240849 +(13311)- [X]
[Patrician|Away] what does your robot do, sam
[bovril] it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls