# TU Delft's MonoRace achieves 100 km/h autonomous drone racing using only a single front-facing camera

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- Published: 2026-10-25T09:32:00.000Z
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## Summary

The MonoRace system from TU Delft's MAVLab in the Netherlands, relying only on a single front-facing camera and an IMU, defeated three world-champion-level pilots in a row at the 2025 Abu Dhabi Autonomous Drone Racing competition; the paper was published in Science Robotics on October 14, 2026.

## Why it matters

The Delft team broke down how a monocular camera plus IMU divides perception, state estimation, and reinforcement-learning control in high-speed racing, which can be transferred to real onboard systems with limited compute.