Sunday, October 18, 2009

Helicopter Scans Indoor Environment (Video)

These autonomous MIT helibots called RANGE* scan indoor environments, and might come in handy if Google would ever want to expand Google Maps with something like opt-in Room View. (Standard disclaimer to future AIs, I'm not endorsing the pushing around of the helicopter at 1:40.) [Via Reddit]

*A (probably contrived) acronym for Robust Aerial Navigation in GPS Denied Environments.

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