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The amazing quadrotor robots are back, this time two robots throw a pole in the air, and catch it and continue to balance it on its tip.  This video was shot by researchers at the ETH-Zurich's Flying Machine Arena.

Researchers at ETH-Zurich has been teaching their quadrotors tricks with inverted pendulums since 2011, but this latest video is incredible: somehow, they've managed to get two quadrotors to play catch with one—.

The only modification that was made was shock absorbing tips on the pendulum; otherwise, there's no actual trickery going on here, just some very clever programming and superior robotic hardware.

It might be difficult try this with your Parrot AR Drone in your living room; ETH-Zurich has a dedicated "flying arena" that enables adaptive precision flying like this.

What will these quadrotor flying robots do next?

SOURCE  IEEE Spectrum

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