University of Pennsylvania Professor Vijay Kumar and His Colleagues Study

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Multiple Choice

University of Pennsylvania professor Vijay Kumar and his colleagues study how to best program swarms of intelligent quadrotors, which are tiny four-rotor helicopters.Each quadrotor in a swarm can be equipped with a digital camera to create unique artistic images or search for missing people or they can be outfitted with little tools to assemble machines in places unreachable in any other way.The creativity of individuals like Kumar raises questions, such as

• A) ​Do creative people have special talents?
• B) ​Doall people think in images as vivid as Kumar?
• C) How ​do we form concepts, like the concept "quadrotor swarm"?
• D) ​all of these.

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