CDA Computational Design and Adaptation

Robotic Kite Flying

I saw this post in the IEEE Spectrum blog about a robotic kite flying. The group that did it, Festo, has done some other cool project like flying robot penguins.

I guess it's always more impressive to demonstrate learning algorithms on big expensive hardware. But having big hardware is not essential for having great algorithms. I'm sure there are ways to demonstrate great algorithms using relatively primitive hardware.

Peter