Autonomous drones could deliver packages, inspect bridges and skyscrapers, monitor emergencies like wildfires and, eventually, ferry people. But the airspace still lacks the testing and coordination infrastructure needed to prove drones can operate safely around people, buildings, aircraft and each other. Mehrnaz Sabet, a doctoral student in the field of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, is working to create that infrastructure.
