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.

World’s Fastest Autonomous Interceptor Vessel Introduced

The vessel features dynamic collision avoidance and can be operated via over-the-horizon network connectivity from almost anywhere in the world

Mar 08, 2022
Nicomatic Launches New Flat Flexible Cables for Space Applications

The new cables reduce the overall requirements for space and weight, and are manufactured with NASA-qualified materials

Mar 08, 2022
Plymouth Rock Technologies Joins Naval Aviation Systems Consortium

PRT is engaged in talks to provide the US Department of Defense with UAS. The company has also rolled out a major upgrade to its website

Mar 08, 2022
Copenhagen Subsea Develops Electric Underwater Thrusters & ROVs

The company's powerful underwater electric thrusters are ideal for ROVs, AUVs and USVs, and the Gorilla ROV is designed for challenging missions in harsh underwater environments

Mar 08, 2022
uAvionix Selects New Distributors for Drone Autopilot

CubePilot's extensive reseller network will now be able to provide the full uAvionix George Autopilot Ecosystem and George integration kits directly to end-users

Mar 08, 2022
Multi-Sensor Gimbals for Commercial UAV Operations

HD Air Studio designed and manufactured a custom gimbal equipped with three different sensors as part of an aerial solution designed to aid marine search and rescue operations

Mar 07, 2022
GA-ASI Releases New Class of UAS

The new Evolution line of advanced UAS joins GA-ASI’s existing Predator-class and Mojave-class aircraft in delivering next-generation UAS that offer advanced, affordable, attritable and autonomous combat power

Mar 07, 2022
Long-Range Surveillance Sensor Systems for 2Excel

Trakka Systems is delivering 2Excel Aviation two long-range TrakkaCams with a high-speed, digital video engine embedded directly within the single-LRU gimbal

Mar 07, 2022
World’s First Delivery Drones for Offshore Wind Farms

Marco Polo Marine and F-drones will co-develop drones customized for deployment in Asia-Pacific, to send supplies and critical items to offshore wind installations

Mar 04, 2022
RTsys to Showcase New Remote Acoustic Buoy

The company’s RUBHY remote acoustic buoy can record and transmit underwater noise and other oceanographic data in real time at distances of up to 10 km

Mar 04, 2022
Teledyne Marine Supplies USVs to United States Geological Survey

The company will supply its Oceanscience USVs for remote controlled surveys and data collection, as well as payloads for current profiling, stream monitoring, discharge measurements and hydrographic surveys

Mar 04, 2022
GA-ASI Unveils New Autonomous Collaborative Platform

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has unveiled Gambit, a new Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP) designed through digital engineering to...

Mar 03, 2022
Autonomous Underwater Resident Vehicle to be Used by Amsterdam’s Museum of the Canals

The Autonomous Underwater Resident Vehicle (ARV-i), developed by Boxfish Research and powered by Transmark Subsea, will be used to create...

Mar 03, 2022
ArduPilot-Based Miniature Open Source Drone Platform Unveiled

CubePilot has unveiled the Ardubee, a miniature multipurpose drone platform compatible with the CubePilot Ecosystem and incorporating the same H7 MCU flight controller as the Cube autopilot. In addition to the autopilot, the CubePilot Ecosystem includes a variety of accessories and carrier boards developed with significant support from the drone community and industry.

Mar 02, 2022
congatec Introduces New Intel Xeon D-Based COM-HPC Servers

congatec has launched three new Server-on-Module families based on the brand-new Intel Xeon D processor family, formerly codenamed Ice Lake...

Mar 02, 2022
Southwest Antennas Releases New Concealment Antennas for Unmanned Systems

Southwest Antennas has released several new concealment antennas for operation in the L, S, and C-Bands. These compact and lightweight...

Mar 02, 2022
Iris Automation Receives FAA Approval for Autonomous BVLOS Flight

Iris Automation has confirmed that it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct an autonomous BVLOS...

Mar 02, 2022
Cambridge Pixel Releases New 3D Radar Tracker

Cambridge Pixel has launched a new software-based radar tracker designed for manufacturers and integrators of deployed E-scan (electronic scan) radars....

Mar 02, 2022
UAV Works Completes Forest Fire Monitoring Project

UAV Works has confirmed that it has successfully completed the ETHON Project, which aimed to develop an emergency management system...

Mar 01, 2022
Remote Operations Center Supports BVLOS Drone Operations in Australia 

Department 13 has unveiled its first Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Canberra, Australia to support the increased demand for Beyond...

Mar 01, 2022
GuardianUTM Cloud Chosen for Ordnance Survey Flight Planning Platform 

Ordnance Survey will incorporate Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM Cloud platform into its in-house survey planning software, which is used to determine...

Mar 01, 2022
New 3U OpenVPX Digital Signal Processing Engine Released

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions has introduced the CHAMP-XD3, its highest performance, security-enhanced, 3U OpenVPX Digital Signal Processing (DSP) module. Based on...

Mar 01, 2022
New Rugged Embedded Computing Solutions Based on Intel Xeon D-1700 & D-2700 Processors

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has launched a new range of rugged embedded products based on Intel’s recently-unveiled Xeon D-1700 and...

Mar 01, 2022
NDAA-Compliant Albatross UAV Released

Applied Aeronautics has confirmed that the company’s flagship Albatross UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) is now available in an NDAA (National...

Mar 01, 2022
Physical & Virtual Avenger UAVs Demonstrate Autonomous Search & Follow

As part of the company’s commitment to develop advanced unmanned autonomy, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) used a company-owned Avenger UAV and five hardware-in-the-loop synthetic Avengers to autonomously search and follow an artificially-generated adversary.  The live-virtual swarm utilized a simulated Infrared Search and Track (IRST) sensor network in addition to the government-furnished CODE autonomy engine to accomplish the mission.

Feb 28, 2022
New Sensing & Mitigation Solution for Unmanned Aerial Threats

DroneShield Limited and Teledyne FLIR are collaborating to extend Teledyne FLIR’s counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) thermal imaging sensing technology to...

Feb 28, 2022
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