this is xwing, a company that has developed an autonomous flying system that handles everything fromuses a lot of the same tech, like lidar cameras and sensors to navigate the skies, while a command centre on the ground helps the autonomous system communicate with the humans in air traffic control. and now that i'm suited and booted, let's see this thing in action. so this is basically a beta version of what they're working on, which means it will make always require a safety pilot on board, but the company is working to be entirely autonomous, meaning none of these by the end of next year. and they're also hoping to get faa certification in 202a. all that the human pilot on board has to do is physically turn the plane on, check that all systems are go and press the button that activates the autonomous system, then it's up to the plane. it does have to liaise with a human in the ground control centre while it's making its way to the runway for take—off, but that's just to ensure its safe to cross certain parts of the strip. during take—off, it's almost like an ghost is in control bec

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this is xwing, a company that has developed an autonomous flying system that handles everything fromhelps the autonomous system communicate with the humans in air traffic control. and now that i'm suited and booted, let's see this thing in action. so this is basically a beta version of what they're working on, which means it will also make always require a safety pilot on board but the company is working to be entirely autonomous meaning none of these by the end of next year, and they're also hoping to get faa certification in 2024. all that the human pilot on board has to do is physically turn the plane on, check that all systems are go and press the button that activates the autonomous system. then it's up to the plane. it does have to liaise with a human in the ground control centre while it's making its way to the runway for takeoff but that's just to ensure its safe to cross certain parts of the strip. during takeoff, it's almost like an ghost is in control because all of the parts are still moving but i'm not saying what's moving them. once you've trained a robot once, you can

this is xwing, a company that has developed an autonomous flying system that handles everything from it's safe to cross certain parts of the strip. during takeoff it's almost like an ghost is in control because all of the parts are still moving but i'm not saying what's moving them. once you've trained a robot once, you can build as many robots as you want, they all do the same thing, right? yeah. some of what the sensors are picking up is augmented over a realtime view of three cameras mounted on the exterior of the plane. the purpleish bits off to the side are other planes that are in the area, while the bluish coloured lines in front of the plane are the flight path. on our way back to base the team decided to let me fly the plane. so we're taking control of the aeroplane. so he's out of the loop because he doesn't know what you are doing. all right. i don't know what i'm doing. perfect. after a quick lesson on xbox controller, i was flying a plane for the first time ever. sure, i was just controlling the direction and the altitude but it was a lot of fun. they even let me go as f