DARPA Has A Tiny, Fully-Loaded And Autonomous Quadcopter Drone Going 45 MPH Indoors [Video]

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Two years ago, DARPA has challenged researchers to build a drone small enough to fly indoors at speeds of 45 mph and avoid hitting any obstacles. An extra condition for the project was that the UAV would be independent of human guidance.

The agency dubbed the program Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) and notes that inspiration for the device comes from the goshawk, a bird of prey that sports the ability to fly through dense woods with perfect obstacle-avoiding capability.

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    Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

    Fully Loaded Quadcopter Achieves 20 m/s Flight - YouTube





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    Joe Mobley
    They will be machine gunning down terrorists in no time at all!

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    Can it out maneuver a baseball bat?
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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Can it out maneuver a baseball bat?
      Let's hope not!

      Nothing more satisfying than clobbering one of these high tech, mozzies, with nerd privacy issues!

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        Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

        Let's hope not!

        Nothing more satisfying than clobbering one of these high tech, mozzies, with nerd privacy issues!



        I can see it now, every 3rd world town will have fishing line stretched across the streets to snag small drones.

        High tech foiled by Dollar Tree, DOH!
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