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user-inactivated  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tiny Humanoid Robot Learning to Fly Real Airplanes

If the point were to automate flying a plane, yes, there are surely better ways to do it, though I don't think autopilots will handle landing or taking off. The interesting thing here is training the humanoid robot, and for that piloting a plane is an interesting task and probably looks better on grant proposals than, say, teaching it to juggle.