MIT's SANDO Drone Planner Avoids Every Moving Obstacle Across 12 Real Flights
Olivier__OG · x · 2026-10-18
MIT's new SANDO motion planner tackles obstacle avoidance in dynamic, unmapped environments without predicting trajectories. Instead, it computes how far each obstacle could move and continuously builds a safe 3D corridor around that uncertainty. In testing, it avoided every moving obstacle across 12 real flights. The takeaway: autonomy's next step isn't perfect prediction, but safe action under uncertainty.
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