Competition Tests Student-Built Aerial Espionage Robots 33
Zothecula writes "Some of the most advanced work in autonomous aerial robotics is not done by DARPA, or by massive corporations. Rather, it is accomplished by teams of university students who participate in the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). For the past 23 years, the IARC has challenged college teams with missions requiring complex autonomous robotic behaviors that are often beyond the capabilities of even the most sophisticated military robots. This year's competition, which was held in China and the United States over the past week, saw the team from Tsinghua University in Beijing successfully complete the current mission – an elaborate espionage operation known as Mission Six."
What could go wrong? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:What could go wrong? (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously. What could go wrong?
You're ten years too late.
Whatever could possibly go wrong is already definitely going wrong.
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Seriously. What could go wrong?
Nothing. But a lot of things could fly wrong in this case.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
Sorority Row Tested Yet? (Score:1)
Fraternity Row asks,,,
Coming to a campus near you soon, the modern replacement for the Blue Box, part time manufacturing and maintenance jobs for Geeks.
Oh boy. (Score:1)
Just what we need more of.
Incredible battery life. Expensive? (Score:2)
Wow-- looked like 4 "video camera" sized batteries hanging down from the robot.
It seemed very slow and tentative- I bet in a few years it will be as fast as a human.
Wonder if it could have some some kind of hovercraft effect to save battery life once it got inside.
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Those aren't batteries. The battery is mounted horizontally under the center of the quadcopter. The oval white shape between the two red pieces of tape marking the front of the robot is a hole in the shrinkwrap tubing of the battery.
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My RSS feed shows the following story between the 5:12pm story and the 6:49pm story about camels. Following the link, Slashdot says "The item you're trying to view either does not exist, or is not viewable to you."
What? That's true!!! /. censoring or censored?
What the hell is happening? Is
A google search managed to land me on a deeper link that still retrieves the thread. [slashdot.org] For now. Maybe somebody is quick enough to make a copy and post it somewhere (how does one upload a page on Wayback Machine???) - I'm at the office now, can't do it.
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Ender's Game (Score:2)
Oh, come on. We were all thinking it.
Get the military out of the schools (Score:1)
Military money needs to be removed from education. Higher education shouldn't be a competition on how fast you can sell out the planet to fascist forces.
Just cut enough out of their budgets that they can't afford to murder goat herders for profit and plow it into real education.
Geeks need to stop giving away their power and take charge and authority over our own contribution or it will always be used against us.
I'm saying this as a former soldier.