Reliable Robotics has opened a new engineering and development centre at its headquarters in California.
The company, which is designing advanced autopilot systems with high precision navigation, said the ceremony was attended by local officials and representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) and Nasa.
The safety systems, which Reliable said will allow for "all weather auto-taxi, auto-takeoff and auto-landing, without new ground infrastructure", are to be first deployed on the Cessna Caravan.
"For the small towns and rural communities served by our nation’s more than 5,000 general aviation airports, only a fraction of which have airline service, these technologies will improve access and enable the delivery of time-critical shipments like medical supplies," the company said.
“Reliable Robotics is on a mission to make aviation safer with technologies like auto-landing and auto-takeoff systems. It’s exciting to get a glimpse of the transformational aviation safety technology being developed in the 16th district,” said California congresswoman Anna Eshoo, who was among the delegates.
“This expansion builds on our early investments in quality assurance processes, rigorous safety analysis and information technology infrastructure, and enables our team to more quickly iterate and mature our designs,” said Aaron Piercy, director of manufacturing, supply chain and quality at Reliable Robotics.