How did TU Delft’s MonoRace race through an indoor gate course at up to 100 km/h—and what happened when other AI drones shared the airspace? This original schematic explainer shows how a forward camera, an IMU, a drone model and known gate geometry helped estimate motion. The paper reports a third-place finish in a separate four-drone race and says MonoRace could not detect or avoid rival drones before a collision. The competition took place in April 2025; the research paper was published in October 2026.
Sources: TU Delft; Science Robotics; the MonoRace research paper.
Visuals are original schematic animation, not race footage. Narration is an AI-generated synthetic voice; the music is original.
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