A couple of years ago I wrote about the work of Davide Scaramuzza and his colleagues at the University of Zurich’s Robotics and Perception Group, and the development of a racing drone able to match ...

First-Person View (FPV), drones are transforming the war in Ukraine. Built from repurposed racing drones, they are laden with explosives and used like precision-guided missiles. They are cheap and ...

For the first time an AI pilot has beaten champion-level humans at drone racing. Read the paper: Champion-level drone racing using deep reinforcement learning Until now, the lighting reflexes, quick ...

Drone racing is an increasingly popular sport with big money prizes for skilled professionals. New control algorithms developed at the University of Zurich (UZH) have beaten experienced human pilots ...