AIBOT Becomes “First eVTOL Company to Conduct Successful Flight Test at UAS Centre, San Bernardino International Airport”

U.S‑based AIBOT, an inno­va­tor in eVTOL and drone tech­nol­o­gy, has become the first to suc­cess­ful­ly con­duct a flight test at the Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tems (UAS) Cen­tre at San Bernardi­no Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (SBD), under the new­ly estab­lished Cal­i­forn­ian Nor­ton Test Range, reports a press release. 

This tri­al rein­forces AIBOT’s role in next-gen­er­a­tion urban air mobil­i­ty solu­tions. The demon­stra­tion val­i­dat­ed the per­for­mance, safe­ty and oper­a­tional fea­si­bil­i­ty of its aiEV­TOL tech­nol­o­gy with­in an air­port envi­ron­ment. It also paves the way for expand­ed test­ing, includ­ing future Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight (BVLOS) oper­a­tions.

Under the lead­er­ship of Sean Cas­sidy, Head of AIBOT’s Reg­u­la­to­ry and Safe­ty, the company’s col­lab­o­ra­tion with the UAS Cen­tre at SBD, “reflects its com­mit­ment to work­ing with indus­try and reg­u­la­to­ry stake­hold­ers to accel­er­ate the adop­tion of autonomous air mobil­i­ty,” states the release. 

Max Ma, Pres­i­dent of AIBOT, com­ment­ed, “This flight of our pre-pro­duc­tion air­craft, which is set to launch next year, marks a major achieve­ment for AIBOT and rep­re­sents a cru­cial step toward our goal of launch­ing com­mer­cial eVTOL oper­a­tions.” 

Max Ma

AIBOT is now prepar­ing for the next phase of tri­als, which are to focus on expand­ing the aircraft’s flight enve­lope, refin­ing autonomous nav­i­ga­tion capa­bil­i­ties and fur­ther val­i­dat­ing the aiEV­TOL platform’s safe­ty and effi­cien­cy. These upcom­ing tests will be used to gath­er the data nec­es­sary for reg­u­la­to­ry approval and com­mer­cial readi­ness.

The com­pa­ny believes that low-alti­tude, autonomous flight oper­a­tions util­is­ing eVTOL sys­tems rep­re­sents the next major oppor­tu­ni­ty in the grow­ing robot­ics and AI field.

The Nor­ton Test Range’s recent open­ing is sig­nif­i­cant for Cal­i­for­ni­a’s aim to main­tain a lead­ing role in emerg­ing avi­a­tion tech. It pro­vides a ded­i­cat­ed site for test­ing next-gen­er­a­tion air­craft and is locat­ed in the greater Los Ange­les area.

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https://www.aibot.ai

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