Video of cool of German-made four-prop micro-drones with such features as hand-motion control, GSM networked communications (swarms!), GPS mapping, mounted cameras, and more.
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The thing I’m most impressed with is the GSM control and data streaming – that’s something I’ve been wanting to try for a long time. Having no range limitation ( :-)…except for dropped calls) would be amazing.
These things are pretty remarkable! I’m impressed when (about halfway through) the guy starts pushing one of them around and it auto-corrects very well.
It’s so cool to see how in 2007 this was rare and new, now motion control is everywhere.
you can see some late developments in the field here- http://www.servotronix.com