Also: AMA Clubs and ATC, PAL-V -- NLR, 2019 NATS Dates, Reach Out to AMA Drone Report!

Lockheed Martin and The Drone Racing League (DRL) challenge you to participate in AlphaPilot, an open innovation challenge, developing artificial intelligence (AI) for high-speed racing drones.

Enter the AlphaPilot Innovation Challenge today for your chance to master autonomous flight and win more than $2,000,000 in cash prizes. AlphaPilot will challenge teams of up to 10 participants each to design an AI framework, powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for AI at the edge, that is capable of flying a drone -- without any human intervention or navigational pre-programming. Autonomous drones will race head-to-head through complex, three-dimensional tracks in DRL’s new Artificial Intelligence Robotic Racing (AIRR) Circuit, starting in 2019. AMA recently led the first stakeholder meeting on recreational UAS regulations in conjunction with the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The meeting was an important step toward advising the FAA with the best approach to move forward. A collective statement has been issued about the meeting. An interesting bit of history occurred recently as an unmanned vehicle transported a human kidney that was eventually transplanted into a human being. The milestone took place last week, as the organ was delivered to a hospital via a drone and subsequently transplanted into a University of Maryland Medical Center patient -- apparently, the first time such an event has occurred. Transplant surgeon Dr. Joseph Scalea, was reportedly inspired to conduct such an attempt due to the immense costs and issues currently incurred in organ transportation, over the course of several years of study. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of the AMA Drone Report!!!

AMA Drone Report 05.02.19 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Thursday, May 2nd, 2019... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Sophie Hurlock, Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers:

• DRL Teams with Lockheed Martin To Launch AlphaPilot
• AMA, CTA Lead First Stakeholder Meeting on Recreational UAS Regulations
• University of Maryland Unmanned Aircraft Used to Complete Kidney Transplant
• Letters of Agreement Between Clubs and Air Traffic Control
• PAL-V, NLR Will Start Development Of An eVTOL Flying Car
• 2019 NATS Dates Now Available!
• Reach Out to AMA Drone Report!

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