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News archive: Near Earth Autonomy

Every Bulletin story and press release covering Near Earth Autonomy, newest first.

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24 March 2022 Eve's eVTOL will benefit from the new technical partnerships.

Technical partners join Embraer's autonomous research

The US-based Near Earth Autonomy, Iris Automation, and Ansys, as well as Switzerland's Daedalean and Brazilian's Motora.ai, are working with Embraer to accelerate the creation of innovative technologies.

23 September 2021

Kaman adds expeditionary logistics UAV to its line-up

Over the past six months, flight development testing of a scaled KARGO UAV demonstrator has been completed, and flight-testing of a full-scale autonomous vehicle is planned for 2022.

3 June 2021 The Volocopter heavy-lift utility VoloDrone.

Volocopter brings autonomy experts onboard for VoloDrone

Near Earth Autonomy has conducted 3,500 flights lasting over 2,000 flight hours of their autonomy system across various aircraft types, sizes, and environments in the last eight years.

25 August 2020 K-MAX equipped with Near Earth’s autonomy package. (Photo: Near Earth)

Kaman partners up to develop autonomous K-MAX

The K-MAX is a highly capable helicopter, and may soon no longer need a pilot. Kaman is working with Near Earth Autonomy to have the aircraft make its own real-time flight decisions.