Germany's DLR Flies AI-Controlled Morphing Wing

DLR's Proteus

DLR's Proteus (foreground) has flown with conventional and morphing wings.

Credit: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt / German Aerospace Center
Germany's aerospace center DLR has begun flying an uncrewed testbed designed to demonstrate shape-changing morphing wing technology in flight. Under the morphAIR project (for Morphing Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Research Group), DLR has flown the Proteus test aircraft, a Tomahawk...
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