Advanced air mobility ambitions, crewed-uncrewed teaming, drone production and an expanded rotorcraft family are key thrusts in Robinson’s growth plan.
Aionics is seeking to replicate the AI approach for developing new and custom battery cell chemistries targeted at specific uses, including EVs and aviation.
French startup Ascendance Flight Technologies says it is on track to make a first flight with a piloted, prototype of its Atea eVTOL aircraft in mid-2025.
Skyfly Technologies, an eVTOL aircraft developer, has been selected to join a UK defense initiative that aims to develop heavy-lift uncrewed aircraft systems.
AMSL Aero has begun untethered flight tests of a full-scale technology demonstrator for its Vertiia box-wing electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Archer says it has nearly completed construction of its mass-production facility in Covington, Georgia, where it plans to manufacture Midnight eVTOL air taxis.
With ambitions to operate air taxi service on demand—and at a frequency far greater than airliners fly currently—Joby Aviation has unveiled ElevateOS software.
A U.S. startup plans to have on-demand production of hydrogen from methanol on-site at airports in 2025, initially to fuel zero-emission ground vehicles.