{"id":690,"date":"2013-02-26T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2013-02-26T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:30:41","slug":"quadrocopter-pole-acrobatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/quadrocopter-pole-acrobatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/pp89tTDxXuI\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is by far the most stunning display of quadrocopter manoeuvrability and learning algorithms I&#8217;ve seen yet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pp89tTDxXuI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The quadrocopter calculates and re-balances the pole several times per second, much like a human would trying to balance a pole on their hand. Robotics keeps creeping toward the day when a robot with human motor skills would be possible and reasonable to construct.<\/p>\n<p>Now sentience on the other hand may take some time. Perhaps that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is by far the most stunning display of quadrocopter manoeuvrability and learning algorithms I&#8217;ve seen yet. The quadrocopter calculates and re-balances the pole several times per second, much like a human would trying to balance a pole on their hand. Robotics keeps creeping toward the day when a robot with human motor skills would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}