Skydio launches R1 – an autonomous flying drone that takes obstacle avoidance to new heights<div class="feat-image">
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From<strong> Drone DJ:</strong></p>
<p>The
Skydio R1 drone has been years in the making but it is here now! Our sister site,
Electrek, first
wrote about it when one of the senior engineers left Tesla to join the then start-up drone company.</p>
<p>What makes the R1 drone unlike any other drone you’ve seen, is its advanced obstacle avoidance system, the Skydio Autonomy Engine. With 12 cameras, the R1 creates a 3D map of its surroundings and tries to predict the movements of its subject, i.e. a skier, runner, biker, up to 4 seconds into the future so that it can follow the subject while keeping it in the center of the frame and avoiding obstacles at the same time. Impossible you say? Wait until you watch the video below. This is obstacle avoidance at a whole new level. Sorry guys, but the bar has been raised with the R1 drone from Skydio.</p>
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Skydio launches R1 – an autonomous flying drone that takes obstacle avoidance to new heights
