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Controlled robot, armed with video cameras, are gradually becoming commonplace: they are already used to, for example, panoramic съемок protests in Ukraine , creating spectacular shots of competitions skaerov and snowboarders Olympics in Sochi , for рекламы Property or chronicles festival Burning Man .





Although, of course, yet such things are people with understandable skepticism, he now flies and photographs, and the next second, maybe start to shoot objectionable? And anyway, you never know who manages them there.

What can you do with this image?

Sergei Lupashin, author of Fotokite, says: "Add to the robot rope - and here you are already almost pet».



Fotokoptery Lupashina - Camera GoPro, the details printed on the 3D-printer, and a regular leash. The first such concept appreciated BBC, and he Lupashin works within the program TED Fellows, uniting creative people and inventors around the world.

In an interview with TED author also noted that the leash can serve as something like a dynamic tripod, and operate such apparatus becomes much easier.



Algorithms fotokoptera memorize trajectory start and goal shooting. We spoke with Lupashinym going down the escalator, and the only one just fly next, constantly adjusting its height and is kept at our faces.
What may be useful such a device? Firstly, of course, to create news reports; for shooting weddings and parties; for the organization of search and rescue operations and intelligence in scientific expeditions. And although that specialized devices for special MOE did not get popular, easy to use fotokopterov suggesting their usefulness in localization and preventing a wide variety of incidents.

Lupashin noted that some of the restrictions imposed on unmanned aerial vehicles,
will not apply to fotokoptery and similar "pedestrian" devices.



Of course, while this is all far from the free sale - even the author himself did not yet represent the propagation model. The project is currently funded by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and hopes to raise funds through AngelList.



And of course the performance of Raffaello D'Andrea, under whom works and Sergei Lupashin in Zurich.



And a video of the development quadrocopter from the other team from the United States:



Source: habrahabr.ru/post/217551/