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fpolingtoday at 9:20 AM3 repliesview on HN

FPV drones cannot have powerful GPU yet to enable truly autonomous flight. And the issue is not only weight/energy restrictions, but also cost.


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alex7otoday at 11:20 AM

True, but take into account that plants need to be able to fly/fight with instruments only and without vision.

Also dogfights are much rarer now, most people just fling rockets at each other (so you know how much these cost, a b200 seems cheap in comparison)

numpad0today at 10:22 AM

Autonomous flight is significantly easier than autonomous driving. You just fly between points in space, and there's nothing but air inbetween. The ground control handles most of collision avoidance, and if that's not available, it's easily achieved by moving 300ft/100m up or down.

daymansteptoday at 9:32 AM

You don't need a super powerful GPU to do computer vision. There are cheap small devices that can do it.