Aurora Flight Sciences building robot co-pilots that don't panic or get tired

From the outside, the single-engine Cessna Caravan that took off from a small airport on Monday looked unremarkable. But inside the cockpit, in the right seat, a robot with spindly metal tubes and rods for arms and legs and a claw hand grasping the throttle, was doing the flying. (www.cbc.ca) Ещё...