Drone racing is a serious skill that requires a lot of practice. As it turns out, AI can do it better than us. TU Delft’s Autonomous Drone has now managed to defeat human champions. It has a max speed of up to 95.8km/h. It uses a single front-facing camera and an efficient neural network for steering.
The knowledge gained from projects like this can contribute to advancement of self driving cars and robots. In this experiment, this AI drone overcame 3 former world champions in the human drone racing finals.
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