The International Aerial Robots Competition (IARC) is advancing the state-of-the-art in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by setting impossible goals that take several years of competition to achieve. Sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) the last-year winners entry from the University of Michigan is an autonomous quad-copter that can navigate human corridors indoors to covertly retrieve objects while avoiding security systems: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
University of Michigan's flying robot took first place last year at the International Aerial Robotics Competition, now they're back with this new model.
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