DronesSelf-flying air taxi

Wisk Generation 6

Name: Wisk Generation 6
Brand: Wisk Aero

Wisk is building a four-passenger electric air taxi that takes off straight up and flies itself with no pilot on board. Boeing owned Wisk until it agreed in August 2026 to hand it to Archer Aviation. AIN, 17 Mar 2026

Stage 1 of 5

Demo only

Which rule placed it

Evidence: No customer evidence yet
Human help: Remote operators
Last milestone: 10 Aug 2026

01Can I get it?

Not yet

Where it works today: Still in flight testing in California with two prototypes; no passenger service anywhere yet. Leeham News, 10 Aug 2026
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: No pilot on board; a person on the ground called a Multi-Vehicle Supervisor watches over the aircraft, and is meant to oversee several at once. DroneLife, 17 Dec 2025

02Track record

What has actually happened

Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.

10 Aug 2026
Funding
Boeing agreed to hand Wisk, together with drone maker Insitu and SkyGrid, to Archer Aviation in exchange for a stake of nearly 20% in Archer. Boeing keeps access to Wisk's self-flying technology.
Reuters via AJOT, 14 Aug 2026
May 2026
Demo
The second Generation 6 prototype completed its first flight.
AIAA, 6 May 2026Company-reported
17 March 2026
Update
Wisk rolled out a second full-size Generation 6 test aircraft. The first one had flown at least 10 times by then.
AIN, 17 Mar 2026
17 Dec 2025
Demo
Wisk's first Generation 6 aircraft made its first flight, a takeoff and hover test in Hollister, California.
DroneLife, 17 Dec 2025Company-reported
2023
Funding
Boeing formally took full ownership of Wisk in 2023.
AIN, 17 Mar 2026

03Promised vs delivered

What the maker said, and when

Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.

Said17 March 2026
Commercial passenger service by 2030
Wisk aims to put its pilotless four-passenger air taxi into commercial service by 2030. AIN, 17 Mar 2026
Still pending
In August 2026 Boeing agreed to sell Wisk to Archer Aviation; observers said it was unclear what this means for the Gen 6 aircraft.
Said17 March 2026
Transition flight (hover to wing-borne cruise) in 2026
Wisk expected its Gen 6 aircraft to make a transition flight, switching from hovering to flying on its wing, during 2026. AIN, 17 Mar 2026
Still pending

04Safety and incidents

What has gone wrong

No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.

On video

What it looks like, at stage 1

Videos from the maker show the robot at its best. The stage comes from the dated record above, not from what a video shows.

Maker's video · 20 Oct 2026Behind the Scenes: Surrogate Flight Testing

Maker's video · 24 Sept 2026Wisk Gen 6 | Uncut Flight Test: August 12, 2026

Maker's video · 9 Sept 2026Meet the 2026 Summer Interns

Maker's video · 3 Sept 2026Testing Off-Nominal Conditions: Inside Our Joint Airspace Simulation with NASA

Maker's video · 1 Sept 2026Wisk Gen 6 | Uncut Flight Test: July 17, 2026

Maker's video · 21 Aug 2026Meet Allison Nason, Wisk's Lead Principle Program Manager for the Generation 6 program.

Every robot video

How we placed it

The rule, not an opinion

Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.

5
Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
4
Paying customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
3
Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
1
Demo onlyThis robot
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.
No pre-order, pilot, paying customer or clearance is on record yet.

What we couldn't confirm. The Archer deal was expected to close by the end of 2026; we did not confirm it had closed. No FAA type certificate yet; Wisk has an application in progress.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Wisk Generation 6 (Wisk Aero): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/wisk. Checked 19 October 2026.