Using natural language processing and AI, PIBOT can perform takeoff, landing, cruise, and taxi tasks without any modifications to the plane itself.

Ford’s plans have now been made public. The American automaker wants to build a multifunctional robot that’s going to fly or drive itself according to the values shown by the predetermined ...

Sure, someone could actually teach the robot how to fly by itself, in which case it would be able to control the trajectory, but the fans would still spread dust everywhere. Creating the device ...

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

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.

Mankind is decades away from taking to the skies in an Iron Man-like suit, but now that researchers at the University of Maryland have cracked the secret to building robot birds that can dive and ...

Making a plane with fly-by-wire controls, where the joysticks, pedals, and other physical controllers are electronically linked to the aircraft’s engines and control surfaces, autonomous is ...

The incredible agility of the common house or fruit fly puts every drone and robot to shame, but devices inspired by them are beginning to catch up. A new four-winged flapping robot not only ...

The new type of drone can fly into a fire and return with 3D data. Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities ...