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The future of Autonomous Aircraft
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- 2016first covered
- 27 Mar 2025latest update
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- China unveils its Mach 4 drone prototype to challenge the USTransport and mobility
- Automatic take offs are coming for passenger jetsTransport and mobility
- Airbus surveyed 100 airports to advance autonomous aircraft plansTransport and mobility
- The world’s first dogfight between an AI and a human pilot has taken placeRobotics
- Unpowered cargo gliders could reduce air freight costs by 65%Transport and mobility
- The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmenSecurity and privacy
- In a first an AI pilot flew a real uncrewed F16 in simulated aerial dog fightsSecurity and privacy
- Unmanned military drones team up with manned fighter jets during BAE trialSecurity and privacy
- USAF pumps $60m into Quarterhorse their future 4,000mph autonomous aircraftTransport and mobility
- The world’s first active duty military AI co-pilot just got its next missionAI and intelligence
- AI fighter pilot obliterates human USAF pilot in simulated dogfightsAI and intelligence
- US topguns will fight AI drones in 2021 as era of autonomous warfare nearsAI and intelligence
- Featured Futurist: The Future of Air Travel 2050, NetflightsArticles
- World’s first fully pilotless commercial aircraft takes off from FranceTransport and mobility
- Autonomous planes, hypersonic jets and flying cars, Boeing unveils its futureTransport and mobility
- Neural implants let military pilots control three jets at once with their mindsBiotech and enhanced humans
- Mysterious hypersonic SR-72 demonstrator spotted in CaliforniaSecurity and privacy
- Lockheed confirms it’s building the unmanned hypersonic SR-72 aircraftSecurity and privacy
- Boeing will trial its first self-piloting planes in 2018Transport and mobility
- Airbus will test its new “Sky taxi” later this yearTransport and mobility
- The US Marines want to build a fully autonomous F-35Robotics
- US Navy stands up the worlds first fully autonomous drone squadronRobotics
- US Navy’s future supersonic submarines will command swarms of autonomous dronesSecurity and privacy
- Ubers flying taxis will take passengers to the heavens and back by 2021Transport and mobility
- DARPA’s hack proof code protects military systems from hackersSecurity and privacy
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