Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
Raffaello D'Andrea: Conozca los drones danzantes del futuro
Raffaello D'Andrea explores the possibilities of autonomous technology by collaborating with artists, engineers and entrepreneurs. Full bio
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una plataforma para aficionados
a multibillion-dollar industry.
una industria multimillonaria.
photography and film and journalism:
fotografía y cine y periodismo:
applications for commercial drones,
para drones comerciales,
are the capabilities being developed
de todo el mundo.
package delivery
antes de la entrega aérea de paquetes
built a six-meter-tall tower
una torre de 6 metros de altura
at the FRAC Centre in France,
en el Centro FRAC en Francia,
they started to fly with ropes.
empezaron a volar con cuerdas.
and accelerations in very tight spaces.
aceleraciones en espacios muy reducidos.
tensile structures.
de forma autónoma estructuras tensadas.
incluyen llevar cargas,
with the physical world.
con el mundo físico.
new projects that we've been working on.
nuevos proyectos que hemos trabajado.
of what can be achieved
de lo que puede lograrse
autonomously,
de manera autónoma,
of its mobile objects in space.
de sus objetos móviles en el espacio.
laboratorio en ETH Zurich,
para localizar objetos,
to locate objects,
enfocar nuestros esfuerzos
altamente dinámicas.
of highly dynamic tasks.
nuevas desarrolladas por Verity Studios,
developed by Verity Studios,
to determine its location in space
para determinar su ubicación en el espacio
to determine what its actions should be.
cuáles deben ser sus acciones.
are high-level ones
son los de alto nivel
to have its cake and eat it.
su pastel y comérselo.
it is efficient in forward flight,
es eficiente en vuelo hacia adelante,
and variations thereof.
y variaciones de los mismos.
de aeronaves de ala fija,
fixed-wing aircraft, however,
for takeoff, landing
para el despegue, aterrizaje
por desgracia.
perturbaciones como ráfagas de viento.
to disturbances such as wind gusts.
architectures and algorithms
de control y algoritmos
improve its performance over time.
mejore su rendimiento en el tiempo.
fundamental abstract questions
preguntas abstractas fundamentales
al corazón de la cuestión.
una cuestión de este tipo sería,
needed for controlled flight?
móviles para el vuelo controlado?
la respuesta a esta pregunta.
the answer to such a question.
as machines with a thousand moving parts
con un millar de piezas móviles
para hacerte daño corporal.
pilotar aviones por control remoto
remote-controlled aircraft
that it could be done with just one.
que se podía hacer con una sola.
controllable flying machine,
mecánicamente más simple del mundo,
no hay alerones,
no other control surfaces,
otras superficies de control,
in its little electronic brain
pequeño cerebro electrónico
and to move anywhere it wants in space.
cualquier lugar que quiera en el espacio.
of the tail-sitter,
del "tail-sitter",
to get it to fly,
of me throwing it just right is very low,
lo lance bien es muy baja,
that we shot last night.
que rodamos ayer por la noche.
is an exercise in frugality,
un ejercicio de austeridad,
with its eight propellers,
el "omnicopter", con sus ocho hélices,
con todo este excedente?
is that it is highly symmetric.
que es muy simétrico.
to orientation.
es ambivalente a la orientación.
with the interacting flows
los flujos que interactúan
while the rest can be learned on the fly.
resto se puede aprender sobre la marcha.
to enter part of our daily lives,
en nuestra vida cotidiana,
extremely safe and reliable.
extremadamente seguros y fiables.
two-propeller flying machines.
de dos hélices separadas.
to spin counterclockwise.
en sentido antihorario.
high-performance quadrocopter.
de alto rendimiento.
electronics, even a battery pack --
la electrónica, incluso unas baterías--
albeit in a degraded fashion.
aunque de forma degradada.
by disabling one of its halves.
la desactivación de una de sus mitades.
de enjambres sintéticos.
coordinated entities
entidades autónomas, coordinados
for aesthetic expression.
para la expresión estética.
micro quadcopters,
disponibles en el mercado,
than a slice of bread, by the way,
una rebanada de pan,
with our localization technology
tecnología de localización
knows where it is in space
dónde está en el espacio
will motivate you to dream up
los motiven a soñar
for flying machines.
para drones.
una pantalla volador en Broadway.
a flying lampshade on Broadway.
difficult to predict
is the journey and the act of creation.
verdadera es el viaje y el acto creativo.
the universe we live in is,
en el que vivimos,
inteligentes, creativas,
tan espectacular.
and economic potential
comercial y económico
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Raffaello D'Andrea - Autonomous systems pioneerRaffaello D'Andrea explores the possibilities of autonomous technology by collaborating with artists, engineers and entrepreneurs.
Why you should listen
Raffaello D'Andrea combines academics, business, and the arts to explore the capabilities of autonomous systems. As part of his research as professor of dynamic systems and control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), he and his collaborators enchant viewers with works like the self-destructing, self-assembling Robotic Chair, or the Balancing Cube that can perch itself on its corners.
D’Andrea and his team created the Flying Machine Arena to test the gravity-defying abilities of their athletic flying robots. Building on research in the Flying Machine Arena, ETH Zürich partnered with its spin-off company Verity Studios and with Cirque du Soleil to create “Sparked,” a short film showcasing the unexpected airborne dexterity of quadcopters. D’Andrea is the co-founder of Kiva Systems, a robotics company that develops intelligent automated warehouse systems and that was acquired by Amazon in 2012.
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