Watch MIT’s speeding drone fly around trees all on its own
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. Or even pilots.
An MIT researcher has developed an autonomous flying drone capable of avoiding obstacles on its own while speeding up to 30 miles per hour, MIT said in a statement on Monday.
There’s video and everything.
The drone is the creation of Andrew Barry, a PhD student with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Using Barry’s stereo-vision algorithm, the drone constantly builds a map of its surroundings and zips in and out of trees without any human control.
Here’s what the autonomous drone looks like, as seen from a human-controlled drone behind it.
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And here’s what the surroundings look like from the drone’s own Terminator-like perspective.
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The software used in the drone is open-source and available online, in case you need ideas for a cheap Christmas present for dad.
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