People fear that robots will take their jobs one day, and this is a frightening prospect for many professions. Although highly repetitive tasks are considered best suited to be performed by robots, ...

Engineers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have made a robot pilot that can pilot a plane after just reading the manual once. The robot is called PIBOT, and it sits in ...

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have built a humanoid robot called Pibot that can pilot a jet — without having to make any major modifications to the ...

MANASSAS, Va. — Think of it as the airborne cousin to the self-driving car: a robot in the cockpit to help human pilots fly passengers and cargo — and eventually even replace them. The government and ...

While the concept of automotive “autopilots” are still in their infancy, pretty much any aircraft larger than an ultralight will have some mechanism to at least hold a fixed course and altitude.