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The wider aim of the four-event series was to advance the development and testing of fully autonomous drone technologies with real-world applications in mind, including disaster relief, search and rescue and space exploration. DRL’s RacerAI drone races autonomously during AIRR Championship. In total, nine teams from around the world took …

Since DJI launched their drone developer platform, the Manifold, at the end of 2015, both commercial drones and compute power have evolved.  Industrial applications for drones have expanded significantly, to include advanced operations in more remote and difficult to reach areas.  Computing power has expanded also, with artificial intelligence and …

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and Drone Racing League (DRL) have announced a contest inviting teams to develop artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of piloting racing drones and beating human pilots. Participating teams will compete in a series of challenges for their share of more than $2 million in prizes. The challenge was announced by …

There’s a lot of hype about AI within the drone business.  Applications labeled “AI” provide a vast number of evaluation and sense-and-avoid capabilities.  But Boston-based Neurala offers drones (or automobiles, cameras, and toys) with one thing extra vital than these functions: a mind. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine studying are …

China’s e-commerce big JD.com has chosen NVIDIA to deliver AI to drone and robotic supply.  NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced the collaboration throughout his keynote handle at GTC China, the first of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conferences. JDrone and JDrover are the newest creations from JD X, the innovation …

NVIDIA’s Redtail drone group: Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Alexey Kamenev, Jeffrey Smith NVIDIA researchers have launched expertise that may “enable  developers to create autonomous drones that can navigate complex, unmapped places without GPS,” says the corporate. “One of the challenges that many companies have encountered is in flying in environments that are …

NVIDIA right this moment unveiled the NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2, a credit score card-sized platform that delivers AI computing on the edge — opening the door to powerfully clever manufacturing facility robots, industrial drones and sensible cameras for AI cities. What NVIDIA means by “at the edge” is computing energy dealt …

Guest post by Lynette Farinas, Nvidia— Flight and robotics have always been Marc Gyongyosi’s biggest passions. At age 15, he built a flight simulator modeled after a Boeing 737. Four years later, he joined BMW’s Advanced Robotics R&D department in Munich. Now the college senior is founder of a startup, …