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Delivery drones can learn to see and dodge obstacles in-flight

New ScientistJul-10-2018, 10:30:08 GMT

Drones have a habit of crashing. If they are ever to be relied on for delivering packages in complex environments like cities, they're going to have to get smarter. A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and Intel has come up with a way for drones to do this – learn to dodge obstacles as they fly. Elia Kaufmann and colleagues wanted to develop drones that could autonomously pilot themselves through hoops or gates used in drone racing.

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AI-Alerts: 2018 > 2018-07 > AAAI AI-Alert for Jul 10, 2018 (1.00)

Country: Europe > Switzerland > Zürich > Zürich (0.35)

Industry: Transportation > Air (0.81)

Technology: Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Robots > Autonomous Vehicles > Drones (0.81)

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