Fully autonomous drone swarm running on the lightweight Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight

Demo by Matt Grob, CTO of Qualcomm at the Abundance360 conference in Beverly Hills. I took a video too, for a sense of it.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight drone platform is an autonomous navigation system, with an optical flow camera, visual inertial odmotery, motion planning, obstacle mapping and local neural networks for object recognition.

They have a 1-2 watt Snapdragon 820 processor and a SNPE (Neural Processing Engine) and there is an deep learning SDK and rumors that they are tensor flow native with a neural processing unit to come.