This video shows two quadrocopters capable of not only balancing an inverted pendulum, but also of launching it off the vehicle and catching it again.<br /><br />By Dario Brescianini, Markus Hehn, and Raffaello D'Andrea.<br />IDSC, ETH Zürich, Switzerland<br />For further information, please visit http://www.flyingmachinearena.org and<br />http://robohub.org/video-throwing-and-catching-an-inverted-pendulum-with-quadrocopters/.<br /><br />This work is supported by and builds upon prior contributions by numerous collaborators in the Flying Machine Arena project.<br />http://www.flyingmachinearena.org/people/