AIBOT completes Phase II testing of its tilt-wing, eight-rotor eVTOL aircraft, with unveil to take place in coming months

Cal­i­for­nia-based start­up AIBOT has com­plet­ed core test­ing of its tilt-wing eVTOL air­craft, with more than 200 flights com­plet­ed and 150 hours of live and sim­u­lat­ed envi­ron­ments.

In a press announce­ment released yes­ter­day (Tues­day), AIBOT also said this round of test­ing val­i­dat­ed enhanced autonomous flight capa­bil­i­ties, fur­ther advanc­ing sys­tem reli­a­bil­i­ty and oper­a­tional safe­ty.

AIBOT’s pro­duc­tion-intent air­craft is sched­uled to debut in the com­ing months. Build­ing on the progress made in Phase II, the ful­ly inte­grat­ed test plat­form, fea­tur­ing enhanced autonomous capa­bil­i­ties, is sched­uled for more flight test­ing in the near term.

Max Ma, Pres­i­dent of AIBOT, said: “This test phase demon­strat­ed not only the matu­ri­ty of our plat­form but also how advanced tech­nolo­gies like NASA’s Sys­tem Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion can accel­er­ate real-world readi­ness.

“We are expand­ing our San Bernardi­no facil­i­ty to scale pro­duc­tion and bring the next gen­er­a­tion of intel­li­gent flight sys­tems to mar­ket. The tilt-wing, eight-rotor archi­tec­ture pro­vides greater redun­dan­cy, improved han­dling, and enhanced safe­ty, strength­en­ing AIBOT’s lead­er­ship in eVTOL inno­va­tion and com­mer­cial­iza­tion.”

AIBOT says it has made sig­nif­i­cant strides in its tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment and flight-test­ing roadmap. The com­pa­ny relo­cat­ed its busi­ness offices to Tor­rance, Cal­i­for­nia, and estab­lished a com­pa­ny R&D and flight ops cen­ter at San Bernardi­no Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (SBD) to expe­dite test­ing activ­i­ties.

In March 2025, AIBOT became the first eVTOL man­u­fac­tur­er to suc­cess­ful­ly con­duct a flight test at the new­ly estab­lished Nor­ton Test Range, oper­at­ed by the Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tems (UAS) Cen­ter at SBD.

As part of the pro­gram, AIBOT also imple­ment­ed NASA’s Sys­tem Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion method­ol­o­gy to refine flight con­trol mod­els, mark­ing one of the first times this advanced process has been applied to a tilt-wing, eight-rotor eVTOL plat­form.

This effort sig­nif­i­cant­ly enhances flight con­trol pre­ci­sion and estab­lish­es a strong foun­da­tion for meet­ing air­wor­thi­ness require­ments and com­mer­cial deploy­ment.

AIBOT has already estab­lished strate­gic part­ner­ships with the likes of Hon­ey­well and Enpow­er Green­tech. It has also secured ear­ly com­mer­cial align­ment across key sec­tors, such as emer­gency response, logis­tics and indus­tri­al inspec­tion.