16 Aug, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted in the NYT on Autonomous Gliders
Self-driving cars once seemed like a far stretch into the future and yet their existence is already upon us. Self-flying airplanes? They, too, could be on the horizon.
Microsoft's automation team took their mini gliders to the Nevada desert to test their computer algorithms and this once-absurd notion. The goal of theses autonomous aircrafts consists of delivering packages or Wi-Fi to remote parts of the world. Professor Ken Goldberg, who specializes in robotics, spoke to the Times on how these gliders reflect a major difference between robotics and strategy games such as chess and Go.
Read the article in its entirety on the New York Times site.
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