Re:Aerial robots swarm the stage at TED [video]
by baddox on Saturday March 03, 2012 @05:07AM
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For many (perhaps most) buildings, I imagine a simpler wheeled or tracked vehicle would be just as effective and surely cheaper, more reliable, and more robust.
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Re:Aerial robots swarm the stage at TED [video]
by modeless on Saturday March 03, 2012 @05:39PM
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Navigation for land based robots is a much harder problem. I would expect quadrotors to be more reliable actually (only four moving parts! No ground contact!) with the ability to map areas inaccessible to wheeled robots, and much faster to boot.