AIBot has emerged from stealth mode with plans to introduce a seven-seat eVTOL aircraft with highly automated flight controls powered by artificial intelligence (AI). While AIBot is not yet ready to share many details about the design of its AI-powered eVTOL aircraft, the company revealed last month that it will use Honeywell’s compact fly-by-wire flight control system. Having recently received a $15 million award from the California Competes grant program, it is preparing to launch a funding round in January, AIBot chief engineer John Clarkson told AIN.
Clarkson explained that AIBot is developing a seven-seat eVTOL air taxi as well as a smaller uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, with a similar configuration. The Long Beach, California-based company has already built and flown five subscale technology demonstrators and intends to reveal its first full-scale prototype in the next two years, he said. AIBot aims to bring a remotely piloted drone to market by the end of 2024, with a single-pilot, six-passenger eVTOL air taxi to follow in 2028 or 2029.
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