{"id":82365,"date":"2018-09-05T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/lockheeds-drone-challenge-create-an-ai-pilot-that-beats-pro-racers"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:42:23","slug":"lockheeds-drone-challenge-create-an-ai-pilot-that-beats-pro-racers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/lockheeds-drone-challenge-create-an-ai-pilot-that-beats-pro-racers","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed\u2019s drone challenge: create an AI pilot that beats pro racers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheeds-drone-challenge-create-an-ai-pilot-that-beats-pro-racers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/05\/17\/mit-virtual-testing-ground-for-drones\/\">autonomous drones<\/a> exist, they\u2019re not usually what you\u2019d call speedy when many skilled pilots could beat them in a race. Lockheed Martin and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/18\/drone-racing-uncertain-future\/\">Drone Racing League<\/a> want to do better. They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lockheedmartin.com\/2018-09-05-Lockheed-Martin-and-Drone-Racing-League-Launch-Groundbreaking-AI-Innovation-Challenge\">launching<\/a> an <a href=\"https:\/\/lockheedmartin.com\/en-us\/news\/events\/ai-innovation-challenge.html?_ga=2.126444877.1509490744.1536186512-703521372.1536186512\">AlphaPilot Innovation Challenge<\/a> that will encourage the public to develop drone AI that can not only race at high speeds, but win. Competitors will have to build an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/07\/nvidia-launches-jetson-tx2-platform-for-drones-and-robots\/\">NVIDIA Jetson<\/a>-based AI system that can swiftly move through the League\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Robot Racing circuit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/09\/05\/lockheed-and-drl-drone-ai-challenge\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/09\/05\/lockheed-and-drl-drone-ai-challenge\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While autonomous drones exist, they\u2019re not usually what you\u2019d call speedy when many skilled pilots could beat them in a race. Lockheed Martin and the Drone Racing League want to do better. They\u2019re launching an AlphaPilot Innovation Challenge that will encourage the public to develop drone AI that can not only race at high speeds, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82365","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=82365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}