India, Oct. 30 -- An Indian-origin professor at Purdue University in the United States has demonstrated an autonomous drone capable of following a person through dense forests without relying on GPS, pre-existing maps or cloud computing.

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Aniket Bera, an associate professor of computer science and director of Purdue's IDEAS Lab, shared a 44-second video on LinkedIn on October 24, showing a quadcopter navigating between trees while tracking a moving person.

According to a report by TechSpot, the drone processes navigation decisions on its onboard computer, allowing it to operate in environments where satellite signals and ...