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SPARC AI Flies Blind and Still Hits the Mark: Overwatch Locates Targets with Drone Camera Fully Covered

Financial Post · September 1, 2026 at 9:15 a.m.

With the camera lens fully obscured for the duration of the tests, the aircraft flew a structured test pattern and the Overwatch API returned target coordinates computed entirely from flight telemetry.

The results confirm a deliberate design principle of the Overwatch architecture: the positioning solve uses no image recognition software and no pre-loaded reference imagery of any kind.

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SPARC AI Flies Blind and Still Hits the Mark: Overwatch Locates Targets with Drone Camera Fully Covered

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