Drones that came with an iOS/Android app have been available for around two years. So the only USP here is that ex-Google employees made another one "me too!" Good for them, but nothing revolutionary going on here.
Good for them, but nothing revolutionary going on here.
The article is hindered by the fact that the author doesn't appear to be familiar with what's on the market already, so he doesn't focus exclusively on the right things. Watching the embedded video introducing the tech, it's clear that they're working on optical flow algorithms that will allow a drone to autonomously avoid obstacles and (eventually) navigate in GPS-denied environments without heavy and expensive sensors. It's true that there are other people working on it, but no one in the commercial market at least has come anywhere close to solving this problem. I'm excited by the possibilities this capability would open up.
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Drones that came with an iOS/Android app have been available for around two years. So the only USP here is that ex-Google employees made another one "me too!" Good for them, but nothing revolutionary going on here.
The article is hindered by the fact that the author doesn't appear to be familiar with what's on the market already, so he doesn't focus exclusively on the right things. Watching the embedded video introducing the tech, it's clear that they're working on optical flow algorithms that will allow a drone to autonomously avoid obstacles and (eventually) navigate in GPS-denied environments without heavy and expensive sensors. It's true that there are other people working on it, but no one in the commercial market at least has come anywhere close to solving this problem. I'm excited by the possibilities this capability would open up.
This is about better software not new capabilites. Think GMail vs Hotmail not Tesla vs GM.