Pibot

August 17, 2023

A team of engineers and researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) is currently developing a humanoid robot called “Pibot” that can fly aircraft without needing to modify the cockpit.
“Pibot,” can control its arms and fingers to dextrously operate the flight instruments, even with severe vibration in an aircraft, using high-precision control technology.
Its external cameras allow Pibot to monitor the current state of the aircraft and the internal ones help it manage essential switches on the control panel.
Pibot is able to memorise complex manuals presented in natural language.
Its memory is so large that it can memorise all of the Jeppesen aeronautical navigation charts around the world, which is impossible for human pilots, according to the KAIST team.
It can memorise aircraft operation and emergency manuals and respond immediately.
It can also communicate with air traffic controllers and humans in the cockpit using voice synthesis.