On February 25, the Miami-Dade Aviation Department and Honda hosted a live demonstration at Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport to showcase three of Honda’s state-of-the-art prototype autonomous work vehicles (AWV) and autonomous work mowers (AWM) mowing grass and spraying pesticide at the 960-acre airport. Miami-Dade County is the first test site in the U.S. for this cutting-edge autonomous technology.
Honda recently completed a three-month pilot program at Miami Homestead General and Miami Executive Airport. The prototype Honda AWV and AWM have been operating four days a week after being programmed with autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance technology. The Miami-Dade Aviation Department will now evaluate the pilot program’s results to determine if it wants to move forward with requesting proposals for a long-term contract for automated work vehicles.