But this isn’t an animatronic for a new Star Wars attraction. Instead, it’s an actual robot pilot—one that can reportedly learn how to fly a plane simply by reading the manual.

Air Force scientists have announced that they had tested a robot kit that can turn virtually any plane into a self-piloting drone, through a program called ROBOpilot. Why is that important? For ...

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. A recent demonstration tested the use of a robot in helping to fly a plane, ...

Using natural language processing and AI, PIBOT can perform takeoff, landing, cruise, and taxi tasks without any modifications to the plane itself.