Unmanned Systems News & Articles

The latest unmanned systems news for UAV, UAS, UGV, USV, UUV, drones and robotics. Articles on product launches and technological advances in unmanned and autonomous design, research and manufacture.

MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Completes Successful ISR&T Exercise

The exercise demonstrated the unmanned helicopter’s ship-to-shore transition capability across ship classes whilst providing persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities

Aug 19, 2022
AeroVironment Expands Autonomy Capabilities with Planck Aerosystems Acquisition

AeroVironment will focus on integrating Planck Aerosystems’ flight autonomy solutions into its UAS offerings to enable safe, autonomous takeoff and landing from moving platforms on land or at sea in GPS-denied environments

Aug 18, 2022
Smart Focus Features for P3 Camera Increase Robustness & Productivity

Phase One’s P3 Smart Focus is purpose-built for the inspection of complex high volume industrial assets such as wind turbines or power towers

Aug 18, 2022
Ground-Based Detect & Avoidance System Supports Manned/Unmanned Teaming

Naval Aviation’s new avoidance technology Guardian is the only ground based detect and avoidance system developed to meet the FAA’s performance standards for unmanned systems

Aug 18, 2022
USVs to Support Sustainable Management of Great Lakes Fishery

Saildrone’s Explorer Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) will collect data to improve fish counts, monitor environmental health, and help to protect native fish species

Aug 18, 2022
MoveIt Studio Developer Platform & SDK Launched for Manipulation Applications



PickNik Robotics’ MoveIt Studio Developer Platform and Software Development Kit (SDK) aim to help robotics and software engineers to create, debug, and ship complex manipulation projects faster


Aug 18, 2022
Personnel Safety System for Uncrewed Ground Combat Vehicles in Development

Stratom’s unique solution will enable the uncrewed ground combat vehicle to determine when personnel or combatants are nearby and leverage that information to inform the robotic system’s actions

Aug 18, 2022
MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft Tests PT6 E-Series Engine

The PT6 E-Series model turboprop engine from Pratt & Whitney Canada, has been tested on the MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

Aug 17, 2022
Volatus Infrastructure Announces Preferred Vertiport Management

Volatus Infrastructure partners with Global Aerial Management Group for business development services and electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) infrastructure management

Aug 17, 2022
Fairbanks Morse Defense Expands Unmanned Marine Vehicle Capabilities

Fairbanks Morse Defense and DECK Marine Systems will co-develop an intelligent Launch and Recovery System (LARS) for use with unmanned marine vehicles

Aug 17, 2022
Tethered Drones Aid Emergency Response Missions

A Federal law enforcement agency has selected the company’s Quad 8 long-endurance unmanned platforms to provide video, communications, and illumination for enhanced emergency response capability

Aug 17, 2022
New MEMS Closed Loop Accelerometer for High Temperature Applications

Physical Logic has developed a MEMS Closed Loop accelerometer designed to meet the challenging system requirements for Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD)

Aug 17, 2022
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered AUV Completes Successful Demonstration Missions

The missions demonstrated the autonomous launch of a micro-AUV from Cellula Robotics’ Solus-LR while submerged and underway

Aug 16, 2022
Inspection ROV Launched for Commercial Diving Operations

The Boxfish Alpha from Boxfish Research is designed for regular inspections, search and rescue, and recovery missions

Aug 16, 2022
Partnership Advances Maritime Expeditionary Standoff Response Vehicle

SeeByte and Greensea Systems have announced an ongoing collaboration in Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) autonomy to satisfy the needs of key maritime robotics consumers such as the US Navy

Aug 16, 2022
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Aug 16, 2022
Onboard AI Launched at DOD Field Exercise

SFL Scientific’s OptoAI identified visual, thermal, and chemical threats in real-time, on board a small UAV, displaying markers in an augmented reality (AR) sandtable for command & control

Aug 16, 2022
E400 VTOL Drone Now With Secure Autopilot

Asymmetric Technologies’ Ironclad flight controller is designed with premium encryption features, including initial user authentication, secure connection, and anti-tamper features that will wipe encryption keys in an emergency

Aug 15, 2022
3U VPX Cybersecurity-Enabled SOSA-Aligned SBCs Released

Aitech Systems’ U-C850x Series Single Board Computers (SBCs) use powerful Intel TigerLake SoC with integrated GPGPU processing to optimize SWaP-C and provide superior interconnectivity for rugged applications

Aug 15, 2022
Edge Autonomy Acquires Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology Company 

Adaptive Energy's lightweight, energy dense Solid Oxide Fuel Cells have been integrated as critical technology in Edge Autonomy's Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms for over 10 years

Aug 15, 2022
Cambridge Pixel Provides Radar Interfacing & Processing Solution for Uncrewed P24 Project

The company’s off-the-shelf SPx Server and SPx Fusion modules are being employed to control the unmanned P24 RIB’s radar, carry out plot extraction, target tracking and fusion of radar tracks with AIS tracks

Aug 15, 2022
C2 Software Renewed for Belgian Navy Mine Warfare School & AUV Fleet

The Belgian Navy has renewed licenses to continue using SeeByte’s multi-domain Command and Control (C2) system SeeTrack v4, and the Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system

Aug 15, 2022
Second Generation Dark Matter qD UAV Released

Clogworks Technologies’ second generation Dark Matter qD has a re-designed, 30% lighter airframe combined with a 3kg+ payload capacity and 55+ minute flight time

Aug 12, 2022
ScaleFlyt Announces Powerful New Digital Tool

ScaleFlyt to combine the Fly and Log drone software tools into a single, more powerful digital tool named Flights

Aug 12, 2022
Rajant Provides Last Mile Communications for Flood Victims 

Rajant’s partnership with Accelecom brings wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) and public access Wi-Fi to Kentucky, US for flood victims and ongoing last mile communications using the ‘Main Street Mesh’ solution

Aug 12, 2022
CAMCOPTER UAS Selected for UK Maritime Coastguard Agency SAR Contract

Bristow will deliver the Second-Generation Search and Rescue (UKSAR2G) program for the UK Maritime Coastguard Agency, which includes the deployment of Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS

Aug 12, 2022
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