• Innovative framework developed in partnership with New York University Agile Robotics and Perception Lab
• RLtools aims to address critical training challenges in autonomoussystems

Abu Dhabi-UAE: 29 July 2024 – The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), today announced that its Autonomous Robotics Research Center (ARRC) has released RLtools, an open-source, groundbreaking reinforcement learning library that addresses critical training challenges in autonomous systems. Developed in collaboration with New York University’s Agile Robotics and Perception Lab, as part of a joint project, ‘Learning to Fly in Seconds’, this achievement marks the first instance of training high-speed, end-to-end drone controllers on a standard commercial grade computer.