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Watch This Autonomous Drone Chase a Person Through a Forest without GPS, Maps, or Cloud Computing

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Purdue computer science professor Aniket Bera posted the 44-second video on LinkedIn last Friday. It shows a quadcopter from his IDEAS Lab weaving between trees to keep...

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The autonomous drone of Aniket Bera provides where he goes who disappears behind a trunk, but the software has roots in Hong Kong. L'articolo Purdue's autonomous drone chases a person in the woods without GPS is taken from Future Next.

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Images from a university project have been released showing a drone tracking a running human through a dense forest without GPS, internet or human guidance. The drone flies at a human-like running speed and about two meters above the ground, while simultaneously drawing a 3D map of the trees. When trees block its view, it guesses the person's path. All of this processing is done directly on the drone itself. This technology is likely to be quick…

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Tech Spot broke the news on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
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