A new frontier for autonomous flight appears to have been breached as Merlin, Inc. introduces its Merlin Pilot for Commercial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have developed the world's lightest "brain control" device to turn bees into remotely controlled "cyborg" drones for military surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Chinese ...

U.S. Navy’s massive MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone completes maiden flight, marking critical progress toward autonomous carrier ...

U.S. Defense technology firms Divergent Technologies and Mach Industries unveiled a new autonomous strike aircraft prototype in Los Angeles on February 17. The aircraft, called Venom, moved from ...

Riding a surge of interest in autonomous aviation for military applications, US start-up Merlin plans to become a publicly traded company. Merlin has been developing autonomy technologies that can be ...

Testing autonomous flight technologies is a tricky business. Many aviation companies, be they startups or established players, create entirely new aircraft for this purpose alone, and that can prove ...

MARINA – Nvidia, a leading company in accelerated computing, has selected Joby as its only aviation launch partner for its new platform, Nvidia IGX Thor, in a move Joby believes will advance its own ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wisk Aero, a leading Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company and developer of the first all-electric, self-flying air taxi in the U.S., today announced it has ...