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Self-flying helicopter gets off ground in Calif
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-16 15:03

 

Stanford University doctoral students Peter Abbeel (L) and Adam Coates (R) are joined by computer science professor Andrew Ng prior to an air-show of robotic helicopters on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, California September 15, 2008. The airshow, which involves helicopters that have taught themselves to fly by watching other helicopters, is a demonstration of an "apprenticeship learning algorithm" developed by computer science professor Andrew Ng and other students at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, where robots learn by observing an expert, rather than by having software engineers attempt to write instructions from scratch. [Agencies]