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On of the students is carrying an RC remote when he comes on stage at the end.

It would be very hard to fly these little guys autonomously at TED, since they use the off-board Vicon multi-camera IR motion-tracking system in their control loop. That's a big, expensive installation in the lab.

Kumar's group is very well respected in the field. They've had several years of strong innovation. Vijay is really good at what he does, and a nice guy.




They were discussing quadroters that don't use the motion tracking system as well - ones that use the onboard kinect to do the spatial mapping.




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