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    Watch DARPA's tiny drone do 45 MPH indoors, autonomously

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    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    02.12.2016

    It's been a bit since we last saw DARPA's bird-of-prey inspired drone system, but the government's mad science wing hasn't been sitting idle. The Fast Lightweight Autonomy program recently took one of its drones on an indoor test flight where there little quadrocopter that could zoomed around a cluttered warehouse in a Cape Cod Air Force base at 45 MPH -- the target speed and environment the outfit was aiming for back in 2014.