Drone Uses a Smartphone to Find Its Way

Drone Uses a Smartphone to Find Its Way | MIT Technology Review

Researchers are using a smartphone as the brains behind a small, inexpensive drone—the phone enables it to find its way around enclosed indoor spaces without using GPS or a remote guide. Although it’s still at an early stage, the so-called SmartCopter could eventually make it safer and cheaper to scout out disaster scenes before human responders plunge in.

Annette Mossel