primidi.com — MIT researchers have developed a multiple-UAV test platform which can be operated by anyone with a high-speed Internet connection. And these small and inexpensive helicopters could soon stay in the air for a week, automatically coming back to their base and landing to recharge their batteries.
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purplexNov 23, 2006
That's awesome i know i sound like an idiot but that's awesome!
razsterNov 23, 2006
Give it 10 years tell they perfect battery life and mini rail guns. We'll have a new form of policing :) Yeah for total control.
Closed AccountNov 23, 2006
How do we operate the f**king choppers? Betch!
akronNov 23, 2006
The retail quad rotor aircraft MIT describes can be found at:www.rctoys.comOf course, it's not run automomously (yet)Get lots of spare parts. Lots. I gave up and started using cotton string, and crazy glue to fix it.
thisisbobNov 23, 2006
May be a while before they can transport a Mexican, but it won't be long before they are transporting Mexican product.Border drone wars - above the wall - just you wait.
bekifftNov 23, 2006
I for one welcome our new UAV swarm overlords.
badgeyNov 24, 2006
Does anyone think the picture of the "entire fleet" of drones looks incredibly like the robots from the 1987 movie, "Batteries Not Included?"<a class="user" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/</a>
derrenMar 11, 2007
I have no hard time to fly rc plane and rc helicopter now !! a good rc site that can help people learn how to fly and how to select rc plane & heli is: <a class="user" href="http://www.rcplaneguide.com/">http://www.rcplaneguide.com/</a> great tips on flying