Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA

And if a robot had piloted Flight 232 in '89, probably all passengers would have died before they even reached Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa.

Didn't I already see that in the movie "Airplane?"

Can't wait to fly with a bot pilot. I'll do it right after I travel in a driverless car.

All very interesting until the one armed metal guy goes missed due traffic on the runway, loses the left engine and with no feet has to decide.what to do first .....do I increase power/raise the flaps then the gear/trim the aircraft/follow missed app procedures/ “talk to someone”/ oh, and the guy in the left seat, he is well, incapacitated. LOL. I’m all for automation but usually there are weather as well as functional limitations to its ability.

I don't fly and know nothing about it, but it bumped the yoke (reasonably hard) at 1:14. Is that not potentially a not good thing?

As the old saying goes "A pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches the controls"

In my opinion not quite as good of a job as it may appear... Note the end with the TR's in particular... Once the a/c is fully stopped the TR's should have been closed and engines idle... In this case here, the Robot held the TR's open well after fully stopped and notice the nose climbing... that a/c if real would have had a lot of tail damage followed by the Nose Gear slamming to the ground.

I saw several flaws... If the bot is going to land the plane, it should be precise. When the instruction said to reduce speed to 190 knots, the bot set it for 192. When the instruction said to reduce speed to 150 knots, it reduced to 152. Only when it said to reduce to 140 knots did it get it exact. Several other instructions had the controls moving before the bot touched them.. Just my observation.

This was not a robot landing a 737 by hand.

It was a robot manipulating a 737's autopilot and the 737 performed an auto-land.

"HAL, land the plane!"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..."

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