Fear not, unless you have a Vicon system installed in your house. Most of these quadcopter demos involved very expensive motion capture systems to determine the location of the vehicles. Pretty much all of the control software is on a separate system.
Call me paranoid, but it probably wont take too many iterations for them to get the price down, and integrate the control system into the quadrocopter. Once that happens, we'll have manhacks on the market.
It seems it relies on 3d information about it's surroundings... Perhaps there is a future project here to try and strip out / slim down the kinect internals to use with these copters and then off load the control system right onto the copter since it won't (maybe) need any more external data.
Ah. Thanks. I was curious about the level of autonomy deployed to each of the actual devices. It'd be interesting to get more details on this particular demo.
