RE2 tapped by U.S. Air Force to build robot pilots to fly traditional aircraft

Autonomous flight systems and aircraft are already in testing by the U.S. Air Force and other defense agencies, and now RE2 Robotics has been picked by the USAF to build a retrofit robot pilot that can easily take the controls of traditional, human-piloted aircraft and convert them to autonomous airplanes. RE2 will get funding from the Air Force to make this happen, and the program will…