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Pilotless planes, practical routes
Autonomous aircraft research asks where access matters most.
The context
Where the work begins
Waterloo-founded startup Ribbit scaling autonomous fixed-wing aircraft to expand transportation access in remote, infrastructure-limited environments across Canada and beyond.
The takeaway
What follows
The official Waterloo report places this work in engineering / aviation. It is a source-linked brief for alumni readers; the source page remains the authority for names, dates and outcomes.
Source reporting
Pilotless planes, practical routes
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