5G and AI Combine to Advance the Capabilities of Drones - AI Trends

What do you get when you combine 5G and AI with advanced drone development? One answer is from Qualcomm's recent launch of its Flight RB5 5G Platform, a reference drone containing computing at lower power with AI, 5G, and long-range Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. According to the company in a press release, the drone and reference design contains "enhanced autonomy and intelligence features" powered by the Qualcomm QRB5165 processor. Announced in June 2020, the QRB5165 processor is customized for robotics applications and is coupled with the Qualcomm AI Engine, which delivers 15 trillion operations per second (Tops) of AI performance. This allows it to run complex AI and deep learning workloads, and on-device machine learning and accurate edge inferencing while using lower power, according to a Qualcomm product description.