Reserearchers at the University of Pennsylvania are doing some amazing maneuvers with their micro quadrotor UAV. Based on comments to the video, the system uses a motion capture system to determine the orientation of objects through which it will fly, and an outside computer system to perform the calculations needed to steer the vehicle in real-time. As for sticking to the wall? Velcro.
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University of Pennsylvania demos Quadrotor gymnastics
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