Drone racing has been around since 2011 when supposedly a group of amateur drone pilots got together in Karlsruhe, Germany to take part in some semi-organised races.

If drone racing is hard to do, it can also be hard to watch: the drones are small, and they tend to look a lot alike, so it’s not easy follow the action or even tell who’s winning.

“Drone racing is definitely on that progression path,” Nerhus said. In the past two years, he’s not only organized the Comets, but also about 20 other drone racing teams across the country.

Mr. Kim, 18, can finally compete in the Drone Racing League, a professional sports group that pits 12 of the world’s top drone pilots against one another in 14 events per season.

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Yeah, racing quads trying to fly as quickly as possible seem like a strange approach for searching in an unknown environment, escpecially since losing a drone is a bigger problem in that case.

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