Is this Skydio R1 being powered by ArduCopter?

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His thing’s SLAM is impressive. The review is completely honest with the short comings, but seriously this thing is very good at what it does!

But…$2500? Probably totally worth that to a media creator…but not a skateboarder. Lol

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answer with 99% confidence : Not ardupilot in it.
But good integration of Nvidia board !

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Skydio is a pretty impressive system, designed at the MIT by Adam Bry and fellow students, they made the LiLy dream come true. As he says: “Others may have one or two components, but none has a full, end-to-end, autonomous stack designed and integrated together.”

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Seems it would have been a lot of rework to have to build a brand new flight controller and also integrate in the Jetson and SLAM algorithms. They had to have reused something.

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Yes.

They used time, and a concrete target to achieve.

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With a good team focus on one only vehicle, one hardware, and one simple set for feature, it won’t be long to make a flying drone… The true force of ArduPilot is to be versatile.

and Open

and trusted

and hackable

and fun

(and crashable too … ;-P)

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@lordneeko I suggest you learn more about the man behind.
Look at this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3E4pl2Weos

And read his papers: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rrg/index.php?n=Main.Publications#toc3

In 2013 they were demonstrating their algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul7YboQA5OY

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