The geek superstars at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, & Perception) lab have taught their nano quadrotors-and if you know robots, you know that UPenn's are among the coolest of quadcopters-to play the James Bond theme. My judgment that this is awesome is unaffected by the fact that I went to grad school at UPenn. Just watch until the end for the guitar:
And Rick Santorum thinks college is for snobs!
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