Fencing A Quadrotor: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance

[HardOCP News]

I wish people would quit doing stuff like this. Seriously, while we are laughing and having fun, drones and robots are building up defenses against our attacks. We are all going to die thanks to people like this.

 

[nutzo]

Teaching them to avoid attacks, and 3d printing so they can replicate themselves...... What could go wrong?

 

[infinitywulfy]

I see this, and think lightsaber training droids.

 

[fuzzylogik]

That's really cool

 

[HeadRusch]

Notice nobody is brave enough to try this with Atlas....move his boxes around, that's one thing...but come at him with a fencing foil, and he'll smoke your fleshy ass.....

 

[Stereodude]

Why does he have a facemask on? And why does the quadcopter only move mostly in one axis to avoid him instead of moving forward/backward or going up and down?

 

[Advil]

Because if he hits the quad or breaks it's blades they could hit him in the face or eyes? Duh?

And it's a video about fencing a quadrotor. How else are you going to get it to go viral?