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Re: pic: Autonomous Aircraft
Looks like Virginia Tech liked Georgia Tech's RMAX so much they got one for themselves. Georgia Tech operated one of those at the 2008 International Aerial Robotics Competition (and actually, previous IARCs as well). (VA Tech operated some perfectly credible, but much smaller helicopters at that event.)
Georgia Tech's helicopter was capable of autonomous flight through waypoints, had cameras for (automatic) image recognition and its own version of a minibot that was dangled on a cable-supported flying boom and delivered through the window of a building (again, autonomously).
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