drone racing
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‘That Was Insane!’ AI Quadcopter Dethrones Top Human Drone Racers
Well, chalk another victory up for the machines. After successfully beating humans in Chess, Go, and a variety of video games, AI has now beaten humanity’s best drone racers. Three world champion drone pilots were recently defeated in a competition by an autonomous, artificial-intelligence-powered drone called Swift. The AI-equipped drone, developed by researchers at the…
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This $35,208 Drone-Shaped Bed Guarantees a Life Spent Flying Solo
Can the continued popularity of motorsports be partly traced back to all the race car-shaped beds that kids of the ‘80s begged their parents for? The Drone Racing League sure hopes so as it’s created the modern equivalent — a bed shaped like a racing drone — in hopes of creating a new generation of…
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What Part Of This, Exactly, Is A Car?
Have you noticed that we, as a society, have grown increasingly liberal about what we define as a car? I’ve generally been under the impression that a car is a type of powered vehicle with four wheels that is smaller than a truck but does its job nonetheless — a vehicle that spends more of…
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Dizzying Video Proves Drone Racing Pilots Have Super-Human Abilities
Video: Do you remember the first time you tried flying a drone? And how you almost immediately crashed it into a wall? Experiences like that make it hard to believe that professional drone racers are able to pilot their tiny crafts at such impossible speeds without having some kind of super-human, X-Men like powers.