Reliable Robotics is bringing remote piloting to small cargo planes

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、元に戻って、航空機のお話記事です。

新しい形の航空機といえば、Droneや電動航空機、更には この二つをミックスした市販の航空機に全自動電子機器を搭載Pilotlessな航空機のCategoryなどです。今回はこの市販の航空機を改造、自動で遠隔操縦すると言う記事です。

運輸関係向けの開発らしいですよ。

詳しくは記事をどうぞお読みください！

Nearly one year ago, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk stealthily made aviation history when it landed at a small airport in Northern California marking the completion of the first successful remote-piloted flight of a passenger airplane in the United States.

The company behind this milestone in commercial aviation history is Reliable Robotics, a startup founded in 2017 by former SpaceX and Tesla engineers who previously brought autopilot to the electric vehicle auto driving masses and made the Dragon rocket soar.

The company has raised $33.5 million in venture funding from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Eclipse Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures and Teamworthy Ventures, and is now making its pitch to potential customers in the logistics and shipping industry.