Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions
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