{"id":128915,"date":"2021-10-13T01:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/autonomous-drones-can-now-zip-through-the-woods-at-insane-speeds"},"modified":"2021-10-13T01:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:23:19","slug":"autonomous-drones-can-now-zip-through-the-woods-at-insane-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/autonomous-drones-can-now-zip-through-the-woods-at-insane-speeds","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous drones can now zip through the woods at insane speeds"},"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\/icupKs91Nb4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to artificial intelligence, drones can now fly autonomously at remarkably high speeds, while navigating unpredictable, complex obstacles using only their onboard sensing and computation.<\/p>\n<p>This feat was achieved by getting the drone\u2019s neural network to learn flying by watching a sort of \u201csimulated expert\u201d \u2013 an algorithm that flew a computer-generated drone through a simulated environment full of complex obstacles. Now, this \u201cexpert\u201d could not be used outside of simulation, but its data was used to teach the neural network how to predict the best trajectory, based only on the data from the sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to artificial intelligence, drones can now fly autonomously at remarkably high speeds, while navigating unpredictable, complex obstacles using only their onboard sensing and computation. This feat was achieved by getting the drone\u2019s neural network to learn flying by watching a sort of \u201csimulated expert\u201d \u2013 an algorithm that flew a computer-generated drone through a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128915","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}