Brie: Skydio drones use 13 cameras and NVIDIA TX1 for autonomy
Adam Bry · a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:44
Adam Brie, CEO of Skydio, reveals the hardware components powering Skydio's real-time computer vision and flight navigation engine.
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“We have 13 cameras on the device, they see in every direction, and then at its core it has a super powerful computer. We're using the NVIDIA TX-one, which is basically like a deep learning supercomputer that uses the same GPU design, the same architecture that's found in their cloud compute systems, and all of that is necessary to run the software and flight algorithms that give it the autonomous behavior.”
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