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what if I told you that we now have safe smart aware robots that can not only move in two dimensions but they can move in three dimensions I'd like to take this moment to invite some more of my friends to join me on stage to show you just what I mean along with the drones are our friends John Daniel and Michael from ascending technologies they worked with us to integrate realsense technology into each of the Firefly drones you see here now there's something very unique about these drones they also have an Intel processor the helps these drones use the information from real sense to see think and adapt no more collisions guys why don't you walk through the drones you could see they put down their patrols the drones are adapting to them so I'd like to try something a little bit more advanced though we're gonna try the first-ever drone ping-pong game to demonstrates the DOH drones ability to avoid a moving object so let's put to the drones down and we'll use this drone here and we're gonna play a little drone ping-pong simply moving the drone between us you see the drone continues to try and stay in one position but keep it from going in the audience avoiding us at all times I can tell you we played this in a conference room one day and it was pretty exciting so let's drop the final drone and I'd like to go over and talk to young and just hear a little bit yawn can you can you tell us a little bit about what you've done here with real sense in your Firefly drones sure so we are using six realsense cameras to create a 360-degree view as you can see here so we see obstacles far away are blue and close by our app so we can move around a little we use our intel onboard computer to expect the most relevant information and send it to our triple redundant nest tech Trinity autopilot which then calculates position data and obstacle avoidance commands this is all done with our GPS or a motion capture system so okay not our GPS just done with motion capture why is this a big deal it's just so much easier and safer to fly a drone with this technology you can just focus on the goal and that the system handle the dynamic environment it's a game changer for the whole industry thanks you on this this is great we think that drones have a possibility to change our lives in many ways you've heard about drone delivery but there's much more Jones can deliver medications and life-saving interventions to remote places inspect power lines agricultural fields and gas lines assist humans basically keeping the humans out of danger with our technology these intelligent robots open doors that can lead to amazing wonders these goals can avoid obstacles and the fact is the real world is filled with all kinds of obstacles almost like a giant obstacle course so we decided to build one here at CES and we want to see if our drones can safely navigate through it we call it our very own game of drones we've used programming to strict the drone to fly the shortest difference distance from Daniel down there at the far end to the mirror into the stage here their job is to fly the shortest distance and we've contained them to that space but we've not told them how to get there their job now is to navigate that obstacle course the best way the shortest way they can to safely get to the other side here just outside so Daniel let's see what happens what you see is the drone takes off and Daniel will put the controller up as he just simply releases it and says go from point A to point B being here he puts the controller up and the Jones off on its own control you'll see it moving left to right but not only is it moving left to right it's having to move up and down as it avoids the obstacles that we put in its place the Jones doing this all on its own we could go in and change if somebody wants to stand in front of that drone they're welcome to but we made one last obstacle to prove to you this is live we put a set of doors at the end preventing the drone from getting to its final home so let's say we let the drone go home and we go ahead and open the doors the real leap forward that the industry has been waiting for is literally give drones sight to increase not only autonomy but safety and that's exactly what real sense Intel processing and these Firefly Jones have done we took it a step further though just prior to see us we took these drones out into the real world to see what would happen and let's take a look