TU Delft's single-camera autonomous racing drone beats three human champions
Science Robotics publishes MonoRace, a TU Delft autonomous drone that beat three human champions in Abu Dhabi using only one camera.
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MonoRace won the 2025 A2RL Grand Challenge in Abu Dhabi, beating the other AI teams and three FPV world champions in a knockout tournament. It combines a monocular camera with an inertial measurement unit and runs fully onboard, without external motion tracking. It reached speeds up to 100 km/h, with a fastest completion time of 16.56 seconds. The system was developed in TU Delft's Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.
Source: Science Robotics, published on October 14, 2026.