Originally published at: AI Technology Helps Drones Sense and Avoid Obstacles | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Iris Automation, a Vancouver-based startup, raised $1.5M to bring their technology to industrial-type drones. Using NVIDIA GPUs on the Amazon cloud to train their deep learning models and a Jetson TX1 onboard the UAV, Iris’ technology analyzes and draws insights from videos captured by the drone’s cameras in real-time. Its system has a detection range…