{"id":1883,"date":"2011-04-08T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T22:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:56:18","slug":"video-robotic-swiss-quadrocopters-hold-their-own-at-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/04\/08\/video-robotic-swiss-quadrocopters-hold-their-own-at-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Robotic Swiss Quadrocopters Hold Their Own At Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2011-03\/video-watch-swiss-quadrocopters-awesome-tennis-moves\">PopSci<\/a> (3\/28\/2011)<\/p>\n<p>Quadrocopters are already accomplished piano players and Kinect-assisted navigators. Now they are playing tennis.<\/p>\n<p>ETH Zurich&#8217;s Flying Machine Arena hosted a quadrocopter tennis match, involving a human-robot volley, a doubles match and an impressive robot-to-robot juggling act. The robots were outfitted with tennis rackets, allowing them to fly toward the ball and return a human&#8217;s serve. Watch it below.<\/p>\n<p>Mark M\u00fcller, Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D&#8217;Andrea conducted this experiment, part of ETH Zurich&#8217;s ongoing project examining adaptive high-performance maneuvers. The team was also responsible for teaching a quadrocopter to play a Christmas carol last year.<\/p>\n<p>The quadrocopters are apparently pretty competitive \u2014 notice how they dive for the ball even when it&#8217;s out of reach.<\/p>\n<p><code><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3CR5y8qZf0Y?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3CR5y8qZf0Y?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: PopSci (3\/28\/2011) Quadrocopters are already accomplished piano players and Kinect-assisted navigators. Now they are playing tennis. ETH Zurich&#8217;s Flying Machine Arena hosted a quadrocopter tennis match, involving a human-robot volley, a doubles match and an impressive robot-to-robot juggling act. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/04\/08\/video-robotic-swiss-quadrocopters-hold-their-own-at-tennis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}