When a drone loses communication with its pilot, there’s little the remote control pilot to do. It’s a situation that’s bad for drone pilots and scary for the FAA. Announced last week, Project Breadcrumb is a collaborative project between drone company PrecisionHawk and the University of Toronto that wants to let drones fly home safely even when they lose their means of communication.
Project Breadcrumb borrows its name from an ineffective attempt by two children to not get lost in the woods, but thanks to onboard memory and visual mapping, it should keep drones free from the clutches of evil witches in candy houses.
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