They don't have any big breakthrough, just hardware-assisted collision detection. That's been done before, by PhysX, later acquired by NVidia.[1] The article doesn't say much about how their collision detection compares with what you can do with a CUDA graphics card.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX</a>
<i>developed special-purpose hardware to solve motion planning in under a millisecond</i><p>My poor dumb arduino bots...<p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-software/motionplanning-chip-speeds-robots" rel="nofollow">https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-software/motionp...</a>