✈️ Travel Mar 30, 2026 · Becca Alkema

Merlin Labs sees incremental path to pilot-free passenger flights

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Merlin Labs sees incremental path to pilot-free passenger flights
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US start-up Merlin Labs is eyeing civil applications for its AI-powered, defense-grade Merlin Pilot autonomous flight control system and says there is “no hard ceiling” for the size of aircraft its technology could eventually be installed on.
Describing fully uncrewed civil flight as “a very long game,” the developer’s initial approach to autonomy is very much “co-pilot first, not an empty cockpit,” Merlin’s chief technical officer, Tim Burns, tells Runway Girl Network.
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