The Boeing X-37B has completed six fully autonomous orbital missions since 2010 - including one lasting 908 days - and lands itself on a runway every time.
VectorGarmin Autoland, FAA-certified in November 2020, lets an untrained passenger land a plane with a single button press when the pilot is incapacitated.
VectorNASA's Ingenuity helicopter flew 72 missions on Mars between 2021 and 2024, proving powered flight is possible in an atmosphere just 1% the density of Earth's.
VectorThe X-37B spaceplane has executed fully autonomous runway landings from orbital velocity across seven missions, building the most demanding autonomous landing dataset in aerospace history.
VectorHow Airbus ATTOL flew a wide-body's takeoff, taxi, and landing using cameras instead of an ILS beam - and why the team refused to oversell it.
VectorMerlin Labs flew an autonomous Cessna at Oshkosh and Vertical Aerospace completed a full eVTOL transition at Farnborough - here's what it means for pilots.
TowerAirbus DragonFly is an A350 demonstrator that can divert and land itself if both pilots are incapacitated - here's how it works and what's next.
VectorThe first production MQ-25 Stingray completed its maiden flight on April 25, 2026, marking a milestone in unmanned carrier-based tanker aviation.
TowerMerlin Labs is building a retrofit autonomy system that has already flown King Air turboprops with zero human intervention.
VectorSkyryse's FlightOS retrofits fly-by-wire controls into existing helicopters, aiming to reduce fatal accidents caused by loss of control.
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