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 ...

Merlin Labs and GE Aerospace have partnered to develop an "autonomy core" for civil and military aircraft, aiming to enable reduced-crew, single-pilot, and fully autonomous flight capabilities. The ...

Addressing a persistent engineering challenge in sustainable UAV design, researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University’s School of Civil Aviation in China have developed a system that bridges ...

The test demonstrated long-range kill chain effects, including an autonomous air-to-air engagement, by using beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) Command and Control (C2). The new test comes a little over a ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN and PDYNW) (“Palladyne AI”), a developer of artificial intelligence software for robotic and unmanned platforms in the industrial and ...

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 ...

Merlin and SNC conducted three test flights in July to gather data for a planned KC-135 autonomous flight demonstration. Credit: U.S. Air Force Boston-based startup Merlin, partnered with Sierra ...

First flight of the Anduril YFQ-44A autonomous fighter prototype is close at hand, according to officials from both the company and the US Air Force. Speaking at the annual Air & Spaces Forces ...