This is a part of the award ceremony for Vid Terp 2008 where entries by participants are being displayed. This part of information is taken from the Universities official page on the result and can be accessed at http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/undergradexp/release.cfm?ArticleID=1647. Contents from that link is quoted here for convenience.

"Winners of the University of Maryland 2008 Vid/Terp student video competition have been announced. Students created three-minute videos to show their research, academics, activities and creativity. Topics ranged from robotic aircraft to an alternative spring break trip, to a fictional day in the life of a student.

The competition was supported by Apple, and by http://www.doflick.com/Video.aspx?cId=41&t=2&mr=1doflick.comand research.usa.org, video Websites started and operated by University of Maryland former and current graduate students.

A pa...

This is a part of the award ceremony for Vid Terp 2008 where entries by participants are being displayed. This part of information is taken from the Universities official page on the result and can be accessed at http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/undergradexp/release.cfm?ArticleID=1647.

Contents from that link is quoted here for convenience.

"Winners of the University of Maryland 2008 Vid/Terp student video competition have been announced. Students created three-minute videos to show their research, academics, activities and creativity. Topics ranged from robotic aircraft to an alternative spring break trip, to a fictional day in the life of a student.

The competition was supported by Apple, and by http://www.doflick.com/Video.aspx?cId=41&t=2&mr=1doflick.com and researchusa.org, video Websites started and operated by University of Maryland former and current graduate students....

Robot vehicles modeled after insects. By Joe Conroy and Andrew Hyslop.

The notion that small, even very small, UAVs might have practical uses arose in the early 1990s. In 1992, DARPA conducted a workshop titled "Future Technology-Driven Revolutions In Military Operations". One of the topics in the workshop was "mobile microrobots". The idea of using very small "microdrones" was discussed, and after initial skepticism the idea started to gain momentum.

The RAND Corporation released a paper on the microdrone concept in 1994 that was widely circulated. DARPA conducted a series of "paper studies" and workshops on the concept in 1995 and 1996, leading to early engineering studies by the Lincoln Laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the