The astounding athletic power of quadcopters | Raffaello D'Andrea

You may also be wondering why we build sports machines? Some people think that the role of play in the animal kingdom is to hone skills and develop abilities. Others believe that it has a more social role, and is used to strengthen bonds between the group. Likewise, we use this functional analogue of sports and

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s to create new algorithms for machines to push them to the limit. How will the speed of machines affect our way of life? Like all our inventions and creations of the past, they can be used to improve the condition of people, or they can be misused and used for evil.

We are not faced here with a technical choice, but with a social question. Let's make the right choice, the choice that allows us to guarantee the best future for machines, in the same way that

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ism in sports can bring out the best in us. Let me introduce you to the wizards behind the green curtain. They are the current members of the Flying Machine Arena research team. (Applause) Federico Ugogliaro, Dario Prescianini, Markus Hehn, Sergey Lobashin, Mark Mueller and Robin Ritz. Take care of them. They are destined to achieve great things. Thank you all. (applause)