quadcopter
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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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Man Sets New Speed Record for the World’s Fastest Drone
The FAA limits the speed of a UAS (unmanned aircraft system), or drone, to 100 MPH. But like speed limits on a road, that doesn’t actually limit how fast a drone can fly. As with any vehicle, there are enthusiasts obsessed with going faster and faster, and Ryan Lademann, a custom drone builder, now holds…
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The First Submarine-Launched Drone Can See Much Farther Than a Periscope
The advantage to hiding a giant ship underwater is that it can sneak up on targets undetected. The disadvantage is that’s it’s hard to keep tabs on what’s going on above the water line: a problem a company called SpearUAV has potentially solved with a quadcopter that can be launched from a sub while it’s…
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This Working Quadcopter Drone Was Built Using Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-Year-Old Sketches
Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s — hundreds of years before the first flight — the polymath sketched a design for an aircraft. Lacking the right materials, da Vinci never built or tested the…