Created by members of the STARMAC Project in the Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Berkeley, this flying machine is the world’s first autonomous flying Xbox Kinect quadrotor. In other words, the “Kinect is sending visual data to a Linux box onboard the mini-copter, letting the quadrotor fly autonomously, detect its own altitude and avoid obstacles.” Continue reading to see it in action.

[via Gizmodo]

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