Eye-Tracking Glasses Are All You Need to Control This Drone
Article cites research by Giuseppe Loianno, assistant professor with a joint appointment to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NYU Tandon.
… Consumer drones are increasingly being stuffed full of obstacle-avoidance systems, based on the (likely accurate) assumption that most human pilots are to some degree incompetent. … Developing a system that’s both easy to use and self-contained is quite a challenge, but roboticists from the University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] are up to it—with just a pair of lightweight gaze-tracking glasses and a small computing unit, a small drone will fly wherever you look.
