This new drone comes with 'whiskers' to help it navigate in the dark or smoky and dusty areas like battlefields — and it weighs less than 100g
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Tactile ‘whisker’ sensing on a sub-100g drone shows how far you can push autonomy with minimal compute when you change the sensor stack. For operators in inspection, mining, or defense, this is a reminder that robustness in degraded environments may come from cheap bio-inspired hardware, not just better vision models.
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