RoboTurk helicopter to aid disaster recovery

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Wed, 02/27/2008 - 2:14pm

A prototype of RoboTurk's control panel.

(Credit: Microsoft)

Two Turkish engineers have built a prototype of an autonomous rescue helicopter equipped with Microsoft robotics and mapping software so that it can capture video of disaster sites and stream it back to command centers.

The engineers Oguz Bayrakdar and Omer Celik ...



 

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