{"id":122210,"date":"2021-05-02T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/exyn-brings-level-4-autonomy-to-drones"},"modified":"2021-05-02T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:23:02","slug":"exyn-brings-level-4-autonomy-to-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/exyn-brings-level-4-autonomy-to-drones","title":{"rendered":"Exyn Brings Level 4 Autonomy to Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwH9m5rPJlc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fully autonomous exploration and mapping of the unknown is a cutting-edge capability for commercial drones.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Drone autonomy is getting more and more impressive, but we\u2019re starting to get to the point where it\u2019s getting significantly more difficult to improve on existing capabilities. Companies like Skydio are selling (for cheap!) commercial drones that have no problem dynamically path planning around obstacles at high speeds while tracking you, which is pretty amazing, and it can also autonomously create 3D maps of structures. In both of these cases, there\u2019s a human indirectly in the loop, either saying \u201cfollow me\u201d or \u201cmap this specific thing.\u201d In other words, the level of autonomous flight is very high, but there\u2019s still some reliance on a human for high-level planning. Which, for what Skydio is doing, is totally fine and the right way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully autonomous exploration and mapping of the unknown is a cutting-edge capability for commercial drones. Drone autonomy is getting more and more impressive, but we\u2019re starting to get to the point where it\u2019s getting significantly more difficult to improve on existing capabilities. Companies like Skydio are selling (for cheap!) commercial drones that have no problem [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1965,1412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-mapping","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}