Hey, remember Taiyo's
voice controlled toy helicopter from last year? This is way cooler. Like,
way cooler. It's an autonomous quad-copter created by the Robust Robotics Group at
MIT. It hovers and flies a bit like the
AR.Drone that had us smitten at CES this past January, but this one has a lot more brains. It response to natural (though slowly delivered) language voice commands that look to be processed on an iPhone before being sent to the helo. In the video embedded below you'll see it responding to the command "Fly past room 124 then face the windows and go up." Sure enough, it does as instructed, and while we don't know how many takes that particular feat of robotic subservience took to pull off, we're suitably impressed. Mind you, this is a research project and not any product ever destined for retail, so after watching that video a few more times we'll just go back to crashing our Picco Zs into the walls -- and each other.
posted March 18th 2010 7:41AM
A little lower and to the left. Ahhh, there she is..... not wearing much, either.
no.
no.
no. no. no. nonononononono
yes.
Tron
Ha, its like having a very slow yet flight enabled dog
they figured they would probably be way expensive anyways and no body would buy them
This would be cooler if there wasn't such a delay in response. I know they have to confirm the command using the iPhone, but....It's still very slow.
@Gamecheater The iPhone sends the commands to the laptop running the show. Then it parses the commands and decides on a heading and speed.
They could have made it a little quicker.
I agree, kinda slow. Think about today's UAV's...if we would control those by vocie they would crash before takeoff >.>
thankfully, right now, i can 'out run' my future overlords. but one day...
All your base are belong to us
I prefer Quad-Desk, even if it's only made up of three desks.
I keep wondering if the batteries would last for a "find Osama"...
Just needs a "kill all humans" command.
Here heli heli heli...
Sit...
Rollover...
Good boy!
I love to see one of this controlled by a woman! Go up no no, go left or right no no, errrmmm goo ermmm… :D
"Destroy Sydney Bristow"
- that is of course a guaranteed way to lose your copter.
I had a class in room 124! i never saw that copter flying around... looks like they were working on that project pretty late though as is usual with course 6 geeks.
Are you familiar with the old robot saying, 'DOES NOT COMPUTE'?
is the first guy in this video gay?