As hard-working PhD students went home on a Christmas evening, Juliet, a little quadorcopter, found herself awake and unable to sleep. Perhaps it was her neighbors, Kilo and Lima, snoring too loudly. So she got up and started looking around, quickly discovering a small pretty Christmas tree lit up in the office. The tree was behind a glass window, so she decided to build her own tree -- out of foam bricks left over from another project. She even found some candles and lights.. and even some matches!

By Sergei Lupashin, Claudia Fischer, Angela Schoellig, and Markus Waibel.

Music: Eight and a Half - Scissors (edit)

Filmed at the IDSC / ETH-Zurich Flying Machine Arena: http://www.FlyingMachineArena.org