in philadelphia, jason derenick of exyn technologies is wking to overcome this problem. - what we focus on is autonomous aerial robotics to enable drones to safely navigate in unknown or unexplored spaces. - [shivani] jason's team has built the first industrial drone that can fly itself anywhere. incredibly, these autonomous robots navigate without gps and map their enronment they go - [der] we focus on all aspects of automy, which includes perception, orientation of during flight, motion planning, and then finally control. - [shivani] but going from two dimensions to three dimensions requires an increase in artificial intelligence processes. the mission for their drone is to flight indepdently through a three dimensional path from one end of the warehouse to the other. - starting mission 3, 2, 1. (dramatic music) - [shivani] now to mess with its computer mind, jason's team, places new and unexpected obstacl in its path. will the drone recognize these unexpected changes? will it get lost? will it crash? - essentially, we have a gabbled lidar system that allows the vehicle to paint a ful