Very cool!
Nope!
Itâs just as well the site isnât popular, otherwise it would be destroyed by now.
I hope they double-checked it.
(Some good stuff in the comments, if anyone is bored.)
So, I should just go back to bed?
Iâve often thought that sleeping straight through a month or two of winter would be awesome.
Thatâll work.
A very good read, if you ask me.
OMG! NOT THE CHEESE BALLS! Oh, the humanity!
Now thatâs drone racing
Staying with the airborne theme, boffins have built an AI system that can fly swarms of drones in formation through obstacle-heavy environments like forests.
In a video released on Thursday, the team released three quadcopters that flew through trees but maintained formation by communicating with each other and using only their own computational resources. They say that in a simulation they have managed to get ten machines working in harmony through similarly obstructed courses.
âWe incorporate a lightweight topological trajectory generation method,â the researchers said in a paper on the subject.
âThen agents generate safe, smooth, and dynamically feasible trajectories in only several milliseconds using an unreliable trajectory sharing network. Relative localization drift among agents is corrected by using agent detection in depth images. Our method is demonstrated in both simulation and real-world experiments.â
The system could be used to coordinate search and rescue attempts, the team suggests, or for mapping functions, but we can bet the military would be interested too. You can check out the full code here.
First 25s simulation, then the real thing.
Sounds a lot like âthis is the last thing youâll hearâ.
And you thought that $999 Mac stand was dear: Steve Wozniakâs Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction
The buyer, a private collector, wished to remain anonymous.
Speaking of AppleâŚ
The future Genius Garage: âWe are sorry but your car is no longer supported and the battery canât be replaced.â
