{"id":2113,"date":"2016-12-27T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2016-12-19T21:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:26:05","slug":"a-drone-designed-and-flown-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/a-drone-designed-and-flown-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"A drone designed and flown with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Core77.com recently featured a story on AU speaker, professional drone pilot, and AI enthusiast Eli D\u2019Elia, who envisions a drone that\u2019s \u201cAI-grown and AI-flown\u201d \u2014that is, both designed and flown by computers. And he thinks it will appear in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p>While autonomous drones may sound like something out of the next <em>Star Wars<\/em> installment, the idea is actually not that far-fetched. Several companies, including D\u2019Elia\u2019s Eagle Eye Metrics, are already dipping their toes into this pond. D\u2019Elia has partnered with Autodesk to design the Hooligan 1000 racing drone, using the Autodesk Dreamcatcher generative design system to design the drone\u2019s chassis. Once the design is finished, D\u2019Elia will start working on the AI system that will steer the craft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you hear people say that all this amazing stuff is going to happen \u2018in the future,\u2019 but you have to remember\u2014that\u2019s like 3 to 5 years from now,\u201d he says. \u201cThink about how far self-driving cars have come in 5 years. This stuff is coming and it\u2019s coming fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/posts\/57167\/A-Drone-on-its-Own-Using-AI-to-Design-and-Fly-a-UAV\">full story<\/a>, and check out D\u2019Elia\u2019s AU 2016 class to learn more: <a href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/au-online\/classes-on-demand\/class-catalog\/2016\/fusion-360\/pd21100-l\">Racing-Drone Design Fundamentals with Fusion 360<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2114\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-1.18.56-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-19-at-1-18-56-pm\" width=\"702\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-1.18.56-PM.png 702w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-1.18.56-PM-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core77.com recently featured a story on AU speaker, professional drone pilot, and AI enthusiast Eli D\u2019Elia, who envisions a drone that\u2019s \u201cAI-grown and AI-flown\u201d \u2014that is, both designed and flown by computers. And he thinks it will appear in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p>While autonomous drones may sound like something out of the next <em>Star Wars<\/em> installment,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":2114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-au-speakers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}