
Besides be doing it as a hobby, my son is studying Mechanical & Electronics Engineering in the specialist area of robotics and AI (quite a popular STEM branch it seems) and the whole autonomous flight is a hot topic in this area. Collision avoidance and the other things you spoke about are extremely interesting to this audience, besides the basic RC models for both free time and the core "platform" on which these students build drones/solutions (hopefully friendly ones).
Thanks for the great service to both hobby and education!