Drones with brains could be airborne this year

Drone technology has developed in recent years, but they are still pretty ridiculous - that the operator in order to avoid collisions. However, whether the change monitoring research in artificial neural networks.

We long to discover computers that objects and react in real time, but the technology and performance requirements that have been rendered unfit for mounting on a slight rumble. So far, the search always felt drones, and barriers focused on short-range radar technology to avoid, but it is often not enough warning would not give for a drone moving quickly on a power line to avoid.

So instead Technologies, a US company called Bio Inspired takes a different approach - mimics a biological brain. Humans and animals are usually rubbish traditional computing tasks such as adding numbers but big in processing the entry of several sense and respond.

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Bio inspired "brain" built by memristors - resistors that have short memories. You will feel the nerve cells connected in a biological brain, causing the chip size system to recognize the situation and "remember" objects such as clouds, birds, buildings, radio towers and other drones - d appreciate as well as a camera, such as distance they are.

"Objects such as other aircraft are cataloged in a vague sense, meaning" I see a plane, "or in a specific sense:" I see another drone "," Gafron Terry, CEO of Bio Inspired told New Scientist . "Not only the system to fly autonomously, but it could be the difference between a deer and an air wolf." This information can then be used by the UAV to a new path of the object.

The applications of the technology are the fleet Amazon delivery of drones, precision agriculture, maintenance of industrial property and of course the military. Gafron said he could even fly through the city in search of empty parking and transmission of this information to you in real time.

Organic is inspired on a prototype of a drone technology, which is the Company believes that working with ready for its first flight later this year.