It's Coders Versus Human Pilots in This Drone Race
It's Coders Versus Human Pilots in This Drone Race
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 11, 20198m 17s
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Show Notes
On Friday night in an old newspaper printing plant in Austin, the future of drone automation lifted off, accelerated and flew, nearly fast enough to beat one of the best drone pilots in the world. Gabriel Kocher, known in the professional Drone Racing League as Gab707, sat behind a net, wearing video goggles and steering his drone through five square gates on a short, curvy course. Next to him were four teammates from the MavLAB of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
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