Here’s the autonomous robot helicopter video that we saw at Stanford University. Rocky is cheering on the robots to attack me and one does.

The full video with interviews with the team members that explain what these things are and how they work will be up next week.

Basically they have laser and other sensors that can see the ground. The team is trying to come up with a helicopter that can fly itself without a pilot being involved. Partly for doing military work so that they could send one of these into a hostile situation to get video and other data. But these might have other uses as well. They can fly for about 20 minutes on one charge, cost about $10,000 to build, and have a few computers on board and lots of sensors.

We’ll also have other videos up next week that we filmed at Stanford. Rocky Barbanica filmed this and tells me he also has the first mid-air collision of these robots captured on tape too.