iRobot Packbot can fly, gets stuck in tree

[Admin]

Not entirely sure how they are steering it . . . but I'd love to see the look on a terrorists face when this thing crashes through their high-rise apartment building window!

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[frodo]

lol, cool flying

[cooldog]

is it on tracks as well

[Admin]

I spoke with the folks at iRobot about this video. They said steering was done by pulling on the chute cables.

[jamort]

looked like to me when it was in the tree it had tracks.... Good way to get on top of a building maybe even inside... if it could disconnect the shute too.... not as good as the flying grass hoppers I saw on tv the army ws developing...(they are really small and can keep jumpin and land up right every time and fly like 60-90 ft in the matterof two seconds