Some of the biggest names in the world of aviation have joined forces to explore how embracing the connected and automated technology solutions of tomorrow could transform the civil aviation industry in the UK and beyond. International Airports Group (IAG), Heathrow airport and Aer Lingus are amo...

Aurrigo has secured nearly £700,000 of funding from The Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Pathfinder – Enhancements programme to extend its autonomous cargo vehicle work at East Midlands Airport. The UK company, which employs more than 110 people at its advanced engineering centre in Cove...

dnata has introduced autonomous GSE into “day-to-day” operations at Dubai World Central. The project follows a trial at the airport first announced in September. The company has deployed six EZTow baggage tractors, supplied by TractEasy, in the first rollout of multiple autonomous units in...

An operations manager at Aurrigo International has been named an "unsung hero" in one of the industrial world's most prestigious competitions. Ricky Raines was featured in The Manufacturer’s Top 100 manufacturing professionals last night at a high-profile event in Birmingham, UK, impressing jud...

Ohmio identifies global potential for its autonomous busing solution, which has been trialled at a number of airports across Europe and the US to transport airline crews around the airside environment. The New Zealand company – a spin-out of the electronic road signs manufacturer HMI – believ...

Swissport has partnered with Aurrigo International to trial autonomous ground handling technologies at Zurich Airport. The partnership includes the deployment of Aurrigo's Auto-Sim digital platform and a live trial of its autonomous Auto-DollyTug vehicle. Swissport said the pilot marks an "imp...

Kansai has become the latest airport to take up autonomous GSE as it deploys a driverless baggage tractor controlled by EasyMile's technology. The rollout of the autonomous vehicle aims to reduce the time between aircraft arrival and the start of baggage return, and contribute to ground handling ...

UK GSE manufacturer Aurrigo International has unveiled the Auto-Cargo - an electric, autonomous vehicle designed to carry a standard cargo pallet or two ULDs. The company says its latest innovation is "set to transform airside logistics" by autonomously carrying a total payload of 16,500kg. Au...

For Hactl (Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited), autonomous vehicles form part of the company’s long-term operational strategy, according to CEO Wilson Kwong. He tells Airside that the company is currently working with its partners to develop a fully autonomous ramp operation – and is very opt...

Fraport is one airport operator that identifies lots of opportunities for autonomous GSE – particularly where the global labour challenge is concerned. Dennis Stein, vice president of logistics and information management at Fraport Ground Services, tells Airside: “The introduction of autonomous ...

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been inundated of late by requests from stakeholders across industry to develop a regulatory framework for autonomous GSE. But Julia Egerer, head of aerodrome safety at EASA, says the regulator wants to see this at an international level. She t...

Yeti Move asserts itself as a leader in enabling autonomous snow clearance machines. Founded in 2015 by Øveraasen and Semcon, originally as Yeti Snow Technology, the company soon became Yeti Move (short for ‘mission orientated vehicle ecosystem’) in 2020. Today, its Yeti Autonomy Service Pla...

More than ever before, operators want to be safer and more efficient – and these are key industry requirements that autonomous GSE manufacturers promise to meet. The innovators at the helm of this exciting technology believe driverless vehicles will also help to address one other major challenge t...

César González Fernández-Medina, vice president of engineering at Qatar Aviation Services (QAS), considers the Middle East’s aviation industry to be a “completely different arena” to the likes of the North American or European markets. This means ground handling operations differ greatly, t...

Autonomous GSE manufacturer Aurrigo International is "upbeat" after a "strong trading year", which the company concluded with a multi-million-pound investment. Aurrigo sealed a £5.25mn investment in December, which the manufacturer will use to put 22 of its autonomous Auto-DollyTug vehicles in o...