Autonomous flight control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combine sensor suites, onboard computation and control algorithms to enable stable, precise and safe operation without direct ...

Robotics company Merlin has successfully completed the first three autonomous control program flights on a KC-135 tanker aircraft at the Pittsburgh Air National Guard Base, operating under an Air ...

Lockheed Martin's famous-yet-secret Skunk Works is conducting live flight tests of its Smart Adaptive Flight Control Environment (SAFE) autonomous AI system on the X-62A. The system can be ...

Group 3+ autonomous aircraft for contested logistics and multi-mission operations, built on a proven commercial UAS platform, achieves concept to flight in 6 months Alameda, California — Pyka today ...

Explore the cutting-edge world of aviation autonomy with the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft, or SARA. This experimental ...

Merlin and SNC conducted three test flights in July to gather data for a planned KC-135 autonomous flight demonstration. Credit: U.S. Air Force Boston-based startup Merlin, partnered with Sierra ...

The U.S. Air Force is building a software backbone for its autonomous drone fleet that could reshape how military and commercial aviation systems share the sky. By standardizing an open architecture ...

TII Racing set the fastest autonomous lap of the Championship, establishing a new benchmark for high-speed, vision-based autonomy MAVLAB secured the multi-drone title, showcasing robust multi-agent ...

Palladyne AI (PDYN) announced that its Palladyne Pilot AI software platform has achieved a key developmental milestone with the successful first flight of a third-party small drone that demonstrated ...

The California state fire agency is partnering with rotorcraft manufacturer Sikorsky to explore how autonomous vertical-lift solutions can improve wildfire response. Under a five-year initiative ...

Bell on 18 December performed the first autonomous flight of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor technology demonstrator with a pair of sorties at its facility in metropolitan Dallas. Keith Flail, Bell ...