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.
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
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
Saildrone’s Explorer Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) will collect data to improve fish counts, monitor environmental health, and help to protect native fish species
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
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
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
Volatus Infrastructure partners with Global Aerial Management Group for business development services and electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) infrastructure management
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
Physical Logic has developed a MEMS Closed Loop accelerometer designed to meet the challenging system requirements for Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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