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Call me paranoid, but it probably wont take too many iterations for them to get the price down, and integrate the control system into the quadrocopter. Once that happens, we'll have manhacks on the market.

> Once that happens, we'll have manhacks on the market.

Researchers at CERN have discovered an effective defense against those:

http://imgur.com/qMCeI

Ten years from now, you'll be buying them as toys at Wal*Mart

It seems it relies on 3d information about it's surroundings... Perhaps there is a future project here to try and strip out / slim down the kinect internals to use with these copters and then off load the control system right onto the copter since it won't (maybe) need any more external data.

Ah. Thanks. I was curious about the level of autonomy deployed to each of the actual devices. It'd be interesting to get more details on this particular demo.