Indoor Autonomous Mapping and Navigation

The movie below details the work led by Nick Roy at the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL, MIT. It is extremely impressive, while a little scary at the same time, note the real-time mapping and 3D model production as the helicopter scans the environment:

You can find out more about the research and the robotics group in general at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rrg/