Penn robotics researchers make list of 10 ‘innovators who changed the world in 2013’ [Popular Mechanics]

A team of Penn researchers that are building small, flying robots was named one of ten innovators who changed the world in 2012 by Popular Mechanics. The researchers are developing the robots, or quadrotors, as they’re known, to be disaster responders. Read the Popular Mechanics story here.

Watch the robots perform the James Bond theme or in the video below by Lexus and KMel Robotics, the Philadelphia startup founded by two Penn grads that specializes in quadrotors.

Professor Vijay Kumar, who leads the team of researchers working on quadrotors, was also named one of Philadelphia Magazine’s smartest people in Philadelphia in 2012. Watch his popular TED talk on quadrotors.