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How to build and evaluate smarter autonomous systems in the air and on the ground—with the same rigor we use in our research benchmarks and public datasets.
Guide
GuideMay 2, 2026
How to Make Autonomous Drones Smarter (Without Wishful Thinking)
A practical stack for AI drone autonomy: simulation-first iteration, metric grounding, modular perception and planning, and closed-loop evaluation.
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Research
ResearchMay 2, 2026
The Metric Gap in Vision-Language Drone Navigation: What Actually Breaks
Why general-purpose VLMs struggle as end-to-end drone controllers, what fails in closed loop, and why separating semantics from geometry is the pragmatic path.
14 min readRead more
Dataset
DatasetMay 2, 2026
Yonder: A Large-Scale Drone Navigation Dataset and Why Offline mAP Lies to You
What Yonder contains, who it is for, and how cross-simulator evaluation prevents false confidence when training perception for embodied flight.
11 min readRead more
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Paper-style writeups and dataset details live on the research page; deep product docs live in the open astral-docs repository.