nasa NASA Engineers Design First Autonomous Helicopter for Mars Flight NASA builds a specialized helicopter called Ingenuity that navigates and lands on Mars completely without human control. The tiny aircraft overcomes the planet's thin atmosphere to achieve a historic first in powered flight.
nasa NASA Engineers Design First Autonomous Helicopter for Mars Flight NASA builds a specialized helicopter called Ingenuity that flies, navigates, and lands on Mars completely on its own. The robotic aircraft overcomes the Red Planet's thin atmosphere and communication delays to achieve autonomous flight.
boeing Boeing Teams Up With Tactical Robotics to Advance Enclosed-Rotor VTOL Aircraft Boeing partners with Israel's Tactical Robotics to develop and market vertical take-off and landing aircraft using unique enclosed ducted rotor technology. The collaboration initially focuses on the autonomous Cormorant vehicle for disaster response and other broad applications.
autonomous flight German Researchers Achieve First Fully Autonomous Plane Landing A team at Technical University of Munich successfully lands a small aircraft using only computer vision, completely bypassing traditional ground-based systems.