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Dutch team celebrates autonomous drone milestone.

A team of scientists from TU Delft in the Netherlands is celebrating a highly significant autonomous drone milestone. Perhaps most interestingly, a subsequent race dubbed the A2RL Grand Challenge allowed the best human pilots to face off against the best AI contenders. However, wider implications for industries that will one day churn out millions of autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and so on are also clear.

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