Réponse :The next time you fly, your pilot might be a robot. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are developing a robot that can fly a plane all by itself. Their pilot robot, called PiBot, can turn on the engine, take off, land, and navigate. The most impressive aspect of PiBot is that it does not require any modifications to a standard airplane in order to fly it. It is capable of operating the wheel and all the switches and levers in a typical airplane cockpit. This ability to fly a standard airplane gives PiBot an advantage over other types of autonomous flying technology, which require custom aircraft or expensive changes to existing aircraft to function. Currently, PiBot can land the plane successfully about 80 percent of the time, which is high for a robot but probably not good enough for real flying. The researchers hope that PiBot could be used to fly planes in dangerous areas, and eventually to replace human pilots altogether.
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