levels. investigators believe someone broke into the plant last friday. and tiny robots called quad rotors told big promise in the future. in time the technology in these autonomous mini aircraft could be used for surveillance, and it actually may save lives. we took a trip to the university of pennsylvania to check them out in this edition of technovation. they navigate through windows, fly in formation and take off and land with ease. and these tiny unmanned aerial vehicles called quad rotors are doing it on their own. >> this is a robot that completely is autonomous. and by that i mean there is no remote control in the background. >> reporter: most of these test flights are done here at the university of pennsylvania's lab decked out with a state-of-the-art motion capture system. students give the quad rotors simple commands via computers but the vehicles decide how they will go from point "a" to point "b" on their own. >> we have the bicon system or