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Air Transport

OttonomyIO | November 23, 2022

Feeling thirsty at your gate waiting for a flight? Summon the Ottobot for a drink.Pittsburgh International Airport is teaming up with tech start-up Ottonomy.IO and its fully autonomous delivery robot—Ottobot—for a pilot project offering select passengers a contactless delivery system. Ottonomy is partnering with PIT's xBridge Innovation Center, the airport's tech proving ground for technologies and startups that provide solutions for the industry and beyond. Drawing from the ...

Business Aviation

SkyThread | October 08, 2021

SkyThread announced a cooperative partnership with SAE International, a Pennsylvania-based global organization serving the mobility sector, predominantly in the aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries, fostering safety and innovation through industry collaboration. As part of the partnership with SAE, SkyThread will launch new initiatives and services aimed at improving safety and reliability while also unlocking billions of dollars per year in currently unrealize...

Defense and Space

Lockheed Martin | November 03, 2022

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully demonstrated to the U.S. Army for the first time how an uninhabited Black Hawk helicopter flying autonomously can safely and reliably perform internal and external cargo resupply missions, and a rescue operation. Performed Oct. 12, 14 and 18 as part of the U.S. Army's Project Convergence 2022 (PC22) experiment, the flights show how existing and future piloted utility helicopters co...

Defense and Space

Alaska Airlines | July 15, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve, Alaska Air Group Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on advancing the market for sustainable aviation fuels to include fuels derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy, and working toward the first commercial demonstration flight in the United States powered by Twelve's E-Jet®. Through the first-of-its-kind agreement, Twelve, Alaska, and Microsoft will work to advance production and u...