How do you teach an autonomous drone to fly itself? Practice, practice, practice. Now Microsoft is offering a way to put a drone’s control software through its paces millions of times before the first ...

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Microsoft wants to interrogate your mistakes. Arriving on GitHub today AirSim a free drone simulator that learns with you. Feeding back meatware control moves into robot control Artificial ...

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Microsoft’s AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics) is an open source artificial intelligence simulator. The technology was first made available to designers of drones in order to assess safety ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Project AirSim, a powerful physics simulator that replicates the real world in 3D digitized environments to train autonomous aerial drones quickly and ...

Testing any kind of project in the real world is expensive. You have to haul people and equipment around, which costs money, and if you break anything, you have to pay for that too! Simulation tends ...

Few recent developments in the world of tech have caught the public imagination like the idea of autonomous cars. While the idea arguably dates back to the late 1930s and General Motor’s Futurama ...

Microsoft has launched a platform to train the artificial intelligence (AI) systems of autonomous aircraft. Project AirSim is, in effect, a flight simulator for drones, which companies can use to ...