The title is a bit misleading, this Beaglebone iteration is oriented towards robotics mainly. It can do autopilot but not without external hardware (e.g GPS). It does have hardware useful in robotics though that common autopilot boards miss.
It is very interesting and the price point is good (about €80). A thing that troubles me is that, with a very quick look, I couldn't find a nice programming guide.
Recently I switched to Raspberry Pi 3 with a Navio2 HAT for an autopilot project. Whilst the Navio2 hardware may be expensive and closed, their software and documentation are top notch. They provide their own rasp pi distro, with code examples for accessing all sensors and even expose some of the hardware in sys-fs.