[757labs] "MIT Drone Finds Its Way Using Kinect Vision" - cool project for the lab maybe?

[Eric Gearhart]

MIT Lincol Labs built an R/C helicopter that uses Kinect to map its
surroundings: "This MIT multicopter is able to fly in GPS denied
environments by creating a 3D map of its surroundings on the fly (no
pun intended) based on point clouds generated by a Kinect. Also pretty
handy for avoiding trees and other obstacles outside at low level.
This processing is onboard, unlike other systems that depend on motion
capture rigs."

(I just saw this article on Slashdot, here:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/30/1330201/MIT-Drone-Finds-Its-Way-Using-Kinect-Vision
)

The control software that does this is opne source...
http://oldwiki.openpilot.org/Main_Page

"OpenPilot is a next generation Free Software autopilot for small
UAVs, including multi-rotor craft, helicopters as well as fixed wing
aircraft. It aims to implement the best features of all current
enthusiast autopilot systems and combines them into a simple easy to
use package. Simplicity does not come with any compromises either,
with no hard-coded settings, a complete flight plan scripting language
and other next-generation features, OpenPilot is planned to be an
extremely capable UAV platform. "


Might this be a project 757labs would be interested in looking into?
Is anyone into r/c copters? Maybe it's too expensive I suppose...
unless we could find cheap toy copters to try this out on