Today we’re announcing the AI Grand Prix. The fully autonomous drone racing competition inviting the boldest engineers from around the globe to compete for $500,000 and a job at Anduril.
No human pilots.
No hardware mods.
Identical @neros_tech drones.
Software is the only path to victory.
If you win, it’s because your autonomy stack is better. Full stop.
Season 1 kicks off this spring, leading up to the AI Grand Prix Ohio.
Clawdbot creator @steipete describes his mind-blown moment: it responded to a voice memo, even though he hadn't set it up for audio or voice.
"I sent it a voice message. But there was no support for voice messages. After 10 seconds, [Moltbot] replied as if nothing happened."
"I'm like 'How the F did you do that?'"
"It replied, 'You sent me a message, but there was only a link to a file with no file ending. So I looked at the file header, I found out it was Opus, and I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to a .wav. Then I wanted to use Whisper, but you didn't have it installed. I looked around and found the OpenAI key in your environment, so I sent it via curl to OpenAI, got the translation back, and then I responded.'"
Luke and Mike Bella have been working on the project for over two years, and this is the fourth version of the drone.
The world's fastest drone reached a speed of 657 km/h, built by a father and son from South Africa.
https://t.co/ieuNLq06SF
University of Pennsylvania researchers created ModQuad—quadrotors that dock mid-air and self-assemble into larger flying structures, then fly together as one, sharing control and stability.