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Max Q: Grounded

3:00 pm PDT • July 11, 2022

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Max Q: Grounded

Autonomous aviation startup Xwing locked in a $10 million funding round before COVID-19 hit. Now the San Francisco-based startup is using the capital to hire talent and scale the development…

Autonomous aviation startup Xwing raises $10M to scale its software for pilotless flights

Hyundai Motor is partnering with Uber to develop and potentially mass produce air taxis for a future aerial ride share network. The partnership is the latest addition to Uber Elevate’s…

Hyundai to build air taxis for Uber’s future aerial ride share network

Flying cars are BS. But there is actually a chance that we’re on the cusp of a revolution in general aviation as startups and major players like Airbus are looking…

Boeing’s new R&D center focuses on autonomous flight

Aurora Flight Sciences is a company working on making full-scale autonomous combat craft a reality, and now some of its work is ready for prime time. The company showed off…

Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrates a fully autonomous helicopter in action

Boeing is acquiring Aurora Flight Sciences, a company that focuses on autonomous flight systems designed to make robot aircraft and vehicles a reality. Boeing says that its acquisition of Aurora…

Boeing to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences in bet on autonomous flight