# The astounding athletic power of quadcopters

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2013
- Speaker: Raffaello D'Andrea
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.

## Lectures

1. [The astounding athletic power of quadcopters](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters/e9e82ce5d8e7), 16 min (TED's player)