Reliable Robotics

Data collection flights will be conducted in partnership with Reliable Robotics, which is developing an aircraft-agnostic autonomy system.

Branch will test and deploy a Cessna Caravan equipped with Reliable Robotics’ autonomy system.

Partners will collaborate on design standards to put commercial autonomy systems in the hands of the military.

Groups are divided on whether technology designed to reduce or even eliminate crews will compromise safety.

The indefinite delivery indefinite quantity agreement gives the partners flexibility to develop and test systems as needed.

Cessna aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation and Reliable Robotics’ autonomy systems fly more than 6,600 miles over the course of a five-day exercise.

Xwing and fellow autonomous flight provider Reliable Robotics are now among a handful of emerging aviation firms with military airworthiness approvals.

The firm intends to retrofit Cessna 208B Caravans and other aircraft with technology that reduces pilot-induced accidents.

The company retrofits Cessna Caravans with its continuous autopilot system that automates all phases of flight, from takeoff to landing.

Check out a pair of historic flights made using modified Cessnas, a strange new aircraft on sale, and plenty more in this week’s Future of FLYING newsletter.