Airspeeder Unveils Mk4 Flying Racecraft and Launches Global International Series at The Bend

Air­speed­er, the world’s first elec­tric fly­ing car rac­ing series, has unveiled its next-gen­er­a­tion Alau­da Air­speed­er Mk4 for the first time at The Bend Motor­sport Park in South Aus­tralia, along­side the offi­cial launch of the Air­speed­er Inter­na­tion­al Series.

The land­mark event also marked the debut of Team Aus­tralia and Team Italia, which flew com­pet­i­tive demon­stra­tions using the Air­speed­er Mk3C plat­form. This is the first time Air­speed­er has raced with­in exist­ing motor­sport infra­struc­ture, sig­nal­ing a major step toward inte­grat­ing aer­i­al rac­ing into main­stream glob­al sport.

The event was deliv­ered in part­ner­ship with Intel, Airspeeder’s Intel­li­gence Part­ner, pow­er­ing the real-time AI sys­tems and com­pute infra­struc­ture behind the rac­ing plat­form.

A New Glob­al Cham­pi­onship for the Phys­i­cal AI Era

The Air­speed­er Inter­na­tion­al Series will fea­ture ten nation­al teams rep­re­sent­ing coun­tries at the fore­front of eVTOL devel­op­ment and advanced air mobil­i­ty.

The series brings togeth­er thou­sands of engi­neers, design­ers, and researchers work­ing across aero­dy­nam­ics, bat­tery sys­tems, propul­sion, and AI-pow­ered col­li­sion avoid­ance — trans­form­ing rac­ing into a glob­al engi­neer­ing com­pe­ti­tion at the edge of physics and auton­o­my.

Matt Pear­son, co-founder of Air­speed­er and Fleet Space Tech­nolo­gies, said: “Air­speed­er has become a prov­ing ground for the most advanced phys­i­cal AI sys­tems ever built. This is where the future of flight is being writ­ten: in com­pe­ti­tion, at speed, under pres­sure.”

Mk4: The Next Gen­er­a­tion of Fly­ing Race­craft

The unveil­ing of the Air­speed­er Mk4 marks a major leap in per­for­mance, safe­ty, and AI inte­gra­tion.  Fol­low­ing the world-first exper­i­men­tal cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the Mk4 by Australia’s Civ­il Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Author­i­ty (CASA), the plat­form estab­lish­es a glob­al bench­mark for reg­u­lat­ed rac­ing eVTOL devel­op­ment.

At its core is AI Force­field, Airspeeder’s pro­pri­etary shared-con­trol sys­tem enabling high-speed, close-prox­im­i­ty rac­ing through real-time col­li­sion avoid­ance and intel­li­gent flight con­trol — trans­form­ing each air­craft into a fly­ing edge AI sys­tem.

Pear­son added: “This is the For­mu­la 1 of robot­ics. We are build­ing the sys­tems that will one day pow­er safe, autonomous fly­ing cars at glob­al scale.”

Australia’s Moment: Build­ing Sov­er­eign Capa­bil­i­ty

The launch of Team Aus­tralia rep­re­sents a broad­er nation­al ambi­tion — to unite indus­try, acad­e­mia, and gov­ern­ment around the devel­op­ment of next-gen­er­a­tion air mobil­i­ty.

Pear­son explains: “Aus­tralia needs a place where its best engi­neers and com­pa­nies can come togeth­er as one team. Air­speed­er is that plat­form. Indus­try part­ners are already back­ing Team Aus­tralia with tal­ent and resources, posi­tion­ing the nation at the fore­front of sov­er­eign capa­bil­i­ty in aero­space and AI.”

Team Italia Takes Flight

A defin­ing moment of the event was the debut of Team Italia, based in Tori­no — the his­toric heart of Ital­ian auto­mo­tive and aero­space engi­neer­ing. Bring­ing togeth­er world-class tal­ent from motor­sport and avi­a­tion, Team Italia rep­re­sents a fusion of Italy’s great­est indus­tri­al tra­di­tions with the fron­tier of flight.

In a moment that cap­tured the imag­i­na­tion of the crowd, the Ital­ian Air­speed­er Mk3C, fin­ished in its icon­ic Rosso Cor­sa liv­ery, surged into the skies above The Bend — a pow­er­ful sym­bol of Italy’s rac­ing soul reborn in three dimen­sions.

From Fer­rari to Fiat, from Turin’s design hous­es to its aero­space pio­neers, Italy has long defined speed, style, and engi­neer­ing excel­lence. Now, with Team Italia, that lega­cy takes flight — posi­tion­ing the nation at the fore­front of the glob­al race for fly­ing cars and phys­i­cal AI.

From Motor­sport to the Future of Phys­i­cal AI

Air­speed­er is rapid­ly emerg­ing as a plat­form for the world’s lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies to show­case phys­i­cal AI sys­tems in motion.

The com­pa­ny was recent­ly fea­tured in NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at GTC, high­light­ing Air­speed­er as a lead­ing exam­ple of the next fron­tier of AI, beyond soft­ware and into real-world machines. As humanoid robot­ics matures, fly­ing cars rep­re­sent the next great phys­i­cal AI mar­ket, where auton­o­my, safe­ty, and per­for­mance con­verge in real time.

Built on Momen­tum

This recent announce­ment builds on a series of major mile­stones:

• World’s first exper­i­men­tal cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for a rac­ing eVTOL
• Three suc­cess­ful fly­ing car rac­ing events
• Devel­op­ment of AI Force­field shared-con­trol sys­tem
• Part­ner­ships with Intel, Dell, AWS, Tel­stra, and IWC Schaffhausen