@interestingengineering: MIT researchers have built SANDO, a flight planner that steers drones through unmapped spaces around moving obstacles it can't predict, backed by a mathematical proof that the path stays collision-free. It needs only each obstacle's top possible speed, which it uses to map how far that obstacle could reach and build a safe 3D corridor that shifts over time. In simulations it beat several state-of-the-art planners to the goal without a crash, and MIT says it avoided every moving obstacle in 12 real flights.

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Nuka_Power :

hear me out, have it fly higher so it goes over the obstacles

2026-10-16 21:10:03

Enzo. :

This seems like something that’s been around for ages, even less impressive if it’s given maximum speeds and doesn’t have to calculate for itself

2026-10-17 01:06:02

brody :

we all know what this is gonna be used for lol

2026-10-16 23:55:21

emmirfarty :

ieds r gonna be crazy

2026-10-16 21:33:52

astravis :

Pretty sure we have obstacle avoidance like 12 years ago [Eye roll]

2026-10-17 19:05:42

zzopd :

drone: personal space. personal space please.

2026-10-18 03:06:31

VintageKhoni_ :

interesting ingeneerinh

2026-10-31 18:15:24

Grilled Cheese @ Here dot Com :

Can they make it shove things out of its way?

2026-10-19 17:50:00

+++ath0 :

So it flies like AuDHD wall.

2026-10-16 20:38:49

norris :

ofc the Chinese working on the project 😃 doesn't China already have that in use tho?

2026-11-06 13:41:30

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