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Autonomous Flight in the Wild: Progress and Challenges from Skydio

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Autonomous Flight in the Wild: Progress and Challenges from Skydio

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Update: Skydio has launched their new Skydio 2:
https://www.slashgear.com/skydio-2-drone-answers-all-my-autopilot-requests-cheaper-smaller-smarter-01593386/

There will be a Skydio 2 physical unit for display and demo at the event, these units will be hard to come by as the first batch is already sold out!
https://www.cnet.com/news/skydios-second-gen-drone-a-1000-self-flying-action-cam-sells-out-for-2019/

Hayk Martiros from Skydio will be the speaker talking about some of the amazing work Skydio has done.

Abstract: The technology for intelligent and trustworthy navigation of autonomous UAVs is just reaching the inflection point to provide enormous value across video capture, inspection, mapping, monitoring, and delivery. At Skydio we believe the ability to handle difficult unknown scenarios onboard and in real-time based on visual sensing is the key to making that happen, within a tightly integrated system from pixels to propellers. I will discuss our learnings from shipping a fully autonomous drone, the algorithms that make it work, and challenges beyond.

Bio: Hayk Martiros leads the autonomous technology team at Skydio, whose work focuses on robust approaches to computer vision, deep learning, nonlinear optimization, and motion planning. Hayk did his undergraduate study at Princeton and graduate study at Stanford University.

Agenda:
7:00-7:30pm Networking
7:30-8:30pm Hayk Martiros from Skydio presentation
8:30pm-8:45pm 5 minute spots
8:45pm-9:30pm Networking and wrap-up

Skydio 2 is released and we will have one at the event!
https://www.slashgear.com/skydio-2-drone-answers-all-my-autopilot-requests-cheaper-smaller-smarter-01593386/

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