But this isn’t an animatronic for a new Star Wars attraction. Instead, it’s an actual robot pilot—one that can reportedly learn how to fly a plane simply by reading the manual.

Italian researchers have built a humanoid robot that may one day fly like Iron Man Aerial humanoid robots could one day serve as a first line of emergency responders.

A team of researchers has put together the dream of anyone who has watched sci-fi or Airplane; a humanoid robot that can pilot airplanes. The robot, known as PIBOT, is designed to sit in existing ...

Researchers have built a humanoid robot called Pibot that can pilot a jet without having to make any major modifications to the cockpit.

A humanoid robot known as PIBOT could pave the way toward robot pilots after showing success learning and flying an aircraft.

In brief: Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) are working to perfect an AI-powered robot capable of flying an airplane simply by reading the manual. The ...

A team of engineers and researchers in Korea is developing a humanoid robot that can fly aircraft without modifying the cockpit. It could also be trained to drive a car or military equipment.

So its lightweight fuselage all but dashes our hopes for this technology leading to a set of human-sized wings letting us all fly. At least for the time being.

If we want to partner with robots, we might want to make them look like us. Humanoid robots are no longer a thing of science fiction. Engineers have built machines that can mimic human movements ...