Air Races Asimov-Style
From its inception as a literary form, Science Fiction writers have plumbed the subtleties of the human condition by pitting man against machine in conflicts that have raged from Earth to Arrakis to Tatooine to Caprica. The contests of intellect, cunning, strength, and speed imagined by Asimov, Clarke, and P.K. Dick were recently actualized at the University of Zurich (Earth), where a trio of champion (human) drone-racers squared-off against a number of autonomous racing quadrotor drones developed by Professor David Scaramuzza’s Robotics and Perception Group.
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