TED 2016 Raffaello D’Andrea demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at TED2016 in Vancouver, Canada. All vehicles performed their maneuvers fully autonomously using their onboard sensors and a localization technology developed by the ETH...
SPARKED SPARKED is a short film that combines human dramatic performance with a group of computer-controlled drones, resulting from a collaboration between ETH Zurich, Verity Studios, and Cirque du Soleil. Its visual textures are real – no CGI, wires, slow-mo, or...
IFAC World Congress 2014 The Flying Machine Arena (FMA) team gave two public lectures titled “Quadrocopter dynamics: a demonstration” during the IFAC World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. The goal was to promote automatic control, and over 700 people attended the...
TEDGlobal 2013 Raffaello D’Andrea gave a talk entitled “The astounding athletic power of quadcopters”, which was filmed live in front of an audience on June 10th, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He used the Flying Machine Arena (FMA) and the quadcopters to expound upon...
Zurich Minds Raffaello D’Andrea was invited to give a presentation to a community of creative and innovative people in and around Switzerland at the ZURICH.MINDS flagship conference on December 12th, 2012. In his presentation entitled ‘Feedback Control and the Coming...
