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From the Ted Talk by Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is the monospinner, the world's mechanically simplest controllable flying mncahie, invented just a few months ago. It has only one moving part, a propeller. It has no fplas, no higens, no ailerons, no other actuators, no other control surfaces, just a simple pplroleer. Even though it's mechanically simple, there's a lot going on in its little ecilenrotc brain to allow it to fly in a stable fashion and to move anywhere it wants in space. Even so, it doesn't yet have the sophisticated algorithms of the tail-sitter, which means that in order to get it to fly, I have to throw it just right. And because the probtilibay of me throwing it just right is very low, given everybody watching me, what we're going to do instead is show you a video that we shot last night.

Open Cloze


This is the monospinner, the world's mechanically simplest controllable flying _______, invented just a few months ago. It has only one moving part, a propeller. It has no _____, no ______, no ailerons, no other actuators, no other control surfaces, just a simple _________. Even though it's mechanically simple, there's a lot going on in its little __________ brain to allow it to fly in a stable fashion and to move anywhere it wants in space. Even so, it doesn't yet have the sophisticated algorithms of the tail-sitter, which means that in order to get it to fly, I have to throw it just right. And because the ___________ of me throwing it just right is very low, given everybody watching me, what we're going to do instead is show you a video that we shot last night.

Solution


  1. electronic
  2. flaps
  3. propeller
  4. probability
  5. hinges
  6. machine

Original Text


This is the monospinner, the world's mechanically simplest controllable flying machine, invented just a few months ago. It has only one moving part, a propeller. It has no flaps, no hinges, no ailerons, no other actuators, no other control surfaces, just a simple propeller. Even though it's mechanically simple, there's a lot going on in its little electronic brain to allow it to fly in a stable fashion and to move anywhere it wants in space. Even so, it doesn't yet have the sophisticated algorithms of the tail-sitter, which means that in order to get it to fly, I have to throw it just right. And because the probability of me throwing it just right is very low, given everybody watching me, what we're going to do instead is show you a video that we shot last night.

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