Photo courtesy Israel Aerospace Industries.

by Scott Kesselman



Israel Aerospace Industries and TLD Group singed a memorandum of understanding with Air France to test the TaxiBot semi-robotic system on its wide-body aircraft fleet at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France.



TaxiBot is pilot controlled and transports aircraft from gate to runway and back without the use of the airplane’s engines.



The three companies will test TaxiBot’s operational and economic benefits to Air France and the reduced environmental impact of the system. The bot should reduce carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and noise emissions, according to a press release by the companies.