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Swiss Quadrocopters' Flight Controlled With Hand Gestures, Via Kinect

Posted July 08, 2011 9:40 AM

From Popular Science:

The quadrocopters at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena already have some amazing autonomous moves. But engineers want to make them easier and more intuitive to control, so they turned to the Kinect.

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Re: Swiss Quadrocopters' Flight Controlled With Hand Gestures, Via Kinect

07/08/2011 12:35 PM

Co-pilot: What the H#ll are you doing?

Pilot: I had an itch.

As the list scene of the video shows.

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07/10/2011 3:57 AM

Flip it the bird, and it flips over?

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