2.4K views · 32 reactions | For the first time, an AI pilot has beaten champion-level humans at drone racing. This new system, called Swift, combines the simulation training that has allowed other AIs to triumph at chess, or video games, with onboard sensors and computation to outrace its human opponents in the real world. Read the Nature paper: https://go.nature.com/3OYaSwR | Nature Portfolio | Facebook

First passenger drone for medical use flies over EU territory. A specialised drone capable of carrying passengers makes its first delivery -- in this case bags of blood -- in European airspace. The manufacturer says the aircraft will be very useful in the medical field, in particular transporting blood and paramedics to disaster zones. | AFP News Agency

69K views · 896 reactions | Footage released by Chinese drone maker DJI shows it has completed the world's first successful drone delivery tests on Mount Everest, Nepal. The heavy drone carried oxygen bottles and food from Everest base camp to Camp 1. | AFP News Agency | Facebook