The original article is from a Chinese site translated to English and is linked here
Long a leader in consumer drone technology, China has started the production of AI-powered drones that are designed for a variety of uses. At the ninth Drone World Congress in late May, over 800 companies displayed over 5,000 drone models.
One notable drone belonged to AI+ innovations, which described its purpose as “expanding possibilities in infrastructure, heritage preservation, disaster response, and urban governance.” DJI’s Matrice 4E was able to showcase this perfectly by making a detailed 3D model of a 1300-year-old ruin autonomously in only 1.5 hours. These drones can now even self-launch, autonomously fix an issue, and return for battery replacements. They can cut planning time for critical missions from hours to minutes. A drone could design routes for it to take, detect issues/anomalies, and even collaborate with machinery/robots. These drones have already started to help with navigation, debris cleanup, and many more important issues that would be hard or even impossible for a human to do. Though there are still some problems (such as battery life, electromagnetic interference disrupting navigation, etc.), once the technology is perfected, the use cases are almost limitless.
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