Airbility (CEOs Jinmo Lee and Taegyu Ryu), a company specializing in high-speed eVTOLs, announced on the 17th that it has recruited Dr. Gunwoo Kim, formerly of the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), as Vice President in charge of AI. Vice President Kim has experience leading the development of advanced aviation and defense technologies, including missile seeker systems, autonomous flight architectures, and multi-UAV collaboration systems, while serving as a senior researcher and team leader of the AI division at ADD.
Vice President Kim possesses expertise in multi-domain sensor and AI convergence, including the design of 'AI Pilots' for mobile unmanned aerial platforms, the establishment of safety-centric autonomous frameworks based on the separation of flight control and decision-making layers, object recognition based on AESA and SAR radars, and super-resolution AI for satellite imagery. He also has experience designing distributed multi-agent drone collaboration and swarm mission command systems.
Airbility is comprised of a founding team that includes personnel from the development of fighter jets such as the KT-1, T-50, and KF21, Hyundai Motor’s future mobility design team, and experts with experience in commercializing manned eVTOLs. With the addition of Vice President Kim, the company has secured AI autonomous flight capabilities, completing its high-speed Vectored Thrust eVTOL development capabilities.
With this acquisition, Airbility will advance the AI for autonomous mission execution of the AB-U60 high-speed unmanned aircraft and strengthen operational efficiency in its global C-UAS and DFR pipelines. In addition, aiming to enter the general aviation market (approximately 370 trillion won) following the confirmation of the FAA MOSAIC system, it plans to develop SVO-based autonomous flight algorithms to establish a foundation for the commercialization of the personal eVTOL AB-M1300.
Kim Gun-woo, Vice President of Airbility, stated, “By integrating the AI autonomous flight experience gained at ADD into Airbility’s eVTOLs, we will provide safe autonomous flight solutions for both the defense and personal aviation markets.” CEO Lee Jin-mo announced, “By completing a team equipped with both fighter jet development experience and AI autonomous flight technology, we have enhanced our competitiveness in the global defense and personal eVTOL markets.”
Meanwhile, the domestic eVTOL industry is actively competing to enter the defense and commercial aviation markets, focusing on AI-based autonomous flight technology and multi-drone collaboration systems.
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