As seen in Popular Science, researchers in MIT's Robot Locomotion Group have built a computer-controlled aircraft that flies accurately enough to navigate safely through a gap that is smaller than its wingspan.

Here, they demonstrate multiple flights of this vehicle with on-board camera footage and high-speed video.

Work by: Andrew Barry, Anirudha Majumdar, Tim Jenks, and Russ Tedrake

Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/new-aircraft-capable-of-fast-accurate-and-repeatable-flight.html

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Robot Locomotion Group
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

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