Self-flying Stanford robocopter learn tricks though observation
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 10:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Brow clenched in focus, expert radio-control pilot Garett Oku, of Mountain View, Calif., guided a 4-foot-long model helicopter through a dizzying sequence of aerobatic tricks, punctuated by an upside-down tailspin called an ``inverted hurricane.'' Then he dropped the controls.