Last month, we told you about some exciting and innovative things occurring at GRASP, the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) lab.

Vijay Kumar, Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UPenn, recently gave a talk at the TED 2012 conference that held the audience spellbound, as he explained the potential of his group’s current research in robotics, specifically relating to the flying nano quadrotor robots that they are working on now.

Kumar’s discussion is just a shade under 17 minutes long, and is a must-see for anyone interested in the current state-of-the-art of robotics.

The real fun starts at around the 15-minute mark.

Enjoy.