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“Researchers from U. Zurich and Google DeepMind trained RL-based quadcopter agents that outperformed a five-time Swiss national drone racing champion at speeds exceeding 22 m/s, while reducing collision rates by 50%.”
“In one-versus-one races, our policy maintained 100% race completion across five trials, while the human pilot averaged only 53.33%. This performance gap suggests that competitive pressure induces riskier behavior in human pilots, a pattern absent in our learned policies.”