Jet+Pack

The Volonaut Airbike that looks like a Star Wars speeder bike ... It even has a Storm Trooper riding it. Is it for real?

Aircraft

Watch: Real-life speeder bike flies through the forest

A jet-powered "speeder bike" flying through the forest on May the 4th? We speculate on the Volonaut Airbike, question the wild claims, and crunch the numbers to see if it's legit – or just really cool VFX. Spoiler alert: we want it to be real.

Jets for hands plus two more on the jetpack: the iRonCub3 is being designed for fast disaster response

AI & Humanoids

Engineers building a jet-powered flying humanoid for disaster response

Imagine that you're injured on a remote mountain path but have managed to contact emergency rescue. The first to arrive on the scene could be a small humanoid robot wearing a jetpack if Italian research bears fruit.

A Gravity jet suit pilot testing a shoulder-mounted weapons system (image has been AI-edited to fit our aspect ratio)

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Gravity tests head-tracking, shoulder-mounted firearms on its jet suit

In a video posted to TikTok, Gravity Industries founder Richard Browning has shown off what appears to be live-fire aerial testing of a shoulder-mounted, head-tracking weapons system for the Iron Man-style jet suit he's been flying since 2017.

Richard Browning with blood plasma in tow on his way to an "injured soldier"

Aircraft

Gravity Industries Jet Suit takes part in NATO mountain rescue exercise

Having already carried out flights of its Jet Suit in separate rescue and military demonstrations, UK company Gravity Industries has combined the two as part of a NATO Mountain Warfare Rescue Exercise.