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.

Italian researchers have built a humanoid robot that may one day fly like Iron Man Aerial humanoid robots could one day serve as a first line of emergency responders.

A team of researchers has put together the dream of anyone who has watched sci-fi or Airplane; a humanoid robot that can pilot airplanes. The robot, known as PIBOT, is designed to sit in existing ...

A humanoid robot known as PIBOT could pave the way toward robot pilots after showing success learning and flying an aircraft.

In brief: Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) are working to perfect an AI-powered robot capable of flying an airplane simply by reading the manual. The ...

So its lightweight fuselage all but dashes our hopes for this technology leading to a set of human-sized wings letting us all fly. At least for the time being.

A team of engineers and researchers in Korea is developing a humanoid robot that can fly aircraft without modifying the cockpit. It could also be trained to drive a car or military equipment.

If we want to partner with robots, we might want to make them look like us. Humanoid robots are no longer a thing of science fiction. Engineers have built machines that can mimic human movements ...

Researchers have built a humanoid robot called Pibot that can pilot a jet without having to make any major modifications to the cockpit.