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Skydiohas introduced the F10, a charmingly lopsidedfixed-wing drone, that uses arobot armfor autonomous launch and capture.
Unfortunately, based on the frequency of that flashing LED on the drone, this video appears to have sped up the capture (and likely the launch) by a substantial amount.
I want a bunch of these little guys. I don’t know what I’d do with them. But I want them.
What if all it took to train a drone to do acrobatics was to tell it whether you like the way it flies?
This is one of those tasks that looks a little boring but is actually both very tricky and very useful.
What exactly is Physical AI? Personally I think it’s just what robotics has always been, more or less, except that everything has to have “AI” in it now, so here we are.
Evan Ackermanis a senior editor atIEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.