Robotic Plane Avoids Walls

Robotics is an area of technology that both fascinates me and frightens me at the same time. Although it would be cool to have a robot that is self sufficient enough that it could do things for me, it's also scary to think what someone else's robot would be told to do (images of the terminator come to mind).

I found this video while reading the news. It demonstrates the use of some insane mathematical computations in the form of a remote control airplane that makes corrections to it's flight path to avoid obstacles. Watch the video to see for yourself (requires flash)...