About a year ago, I was excited about processor controlled inverted pendulum projects and robotic quad-rotor (quad-copters) —- since then it’s gotten even BETTER.
In his lab at University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quad-rotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams– for construction, surveying disasters and far more. http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
now . . putting it TOGETHER — Inverted Pendulum(s) and Agile Aerial Robots