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.

UK’s First Medical Drone Delivery Network to be Developed

A consortium of 13 organisations, led by AGS Airports, has been formed to develop and trial the UK’s first national...

Jan 30, 2021
Drone Delivery Service Launched on Guam

Valqari’s Drone Delivery Station technology is being deployed as part of a new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-based delivery service launching...

Jan 30, 2021
Scopito Wins Infrastructure Maintenance Inspection Platform Award

Drone inspection data management solution Scopito has been awarded Best Infrastructure Maintenance Inspection Platform 2020 at the Corporate Vision Small...

Jan 29, 2021
SeeByte to Develop AI Software for Intelligent Ship Project

SeeByte has been awarded a contract by the UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) to provide artificial intelligence capabilities for...

Jan 29, 2021
Self-Protection System Successfully Demonstrated on MQ-9 UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has successfully completed flight testing of a Self-Protection Pod (SPP) for its MQ-9 unmanned...

Jan 28, 2021
Mine Countermeasure System Provided for Danish Navy USVs

Ultra Sonar Systems has partnered with Kraken Robotic Systems to support the delivery of Kraken’s SeaScout system to the Royal...

Jan 28, 2021
Aerospace & Defense Equity Firm Acquires UAV Factory

UAV Factory has been acquired by AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense and government...

Jan 28, 2021
New Navigation-Grade MEMS Accelerometers Launched

Physical Logic has introduced two new additions to its flagship range of MEMS accelerometers, based on its proven MAXL-CL-3030. The...

Jan 28, 2021
Case Study: Autonomous Navigation for Battlefield UGVs

KVH has released a case study outlining how its GEO-FOG 3D Dual Inertial Navigation System (INS) has been used to...

Jan 28, 2021
Alker Introduces Fibre Optic Warranty System

Alker has introduced GoOptics, a guaranteed warranty system for fibre optics that has been designed to minimize downtime for mission-critical...

Jan 28, 2021
Next-Generation IMUs for Unmanned Systems Under Development

Honeywell has received funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the next generation of micro-electromechanical...

Jan 28, 2021
AI-Powered Drone Cybersecurity System Created

Industrial artificial intelligence (AI) developer SparkCognition has created a new AI-powered cybersecurity solution designed to protect drones from zero-day attacks...

Jan 27, 2021
Sky Power Opens Online Store for UAV Engines

Sky Power’s complete UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) engine product portfolio has been made available for purchase via a new online...

Jan 27, 2021
Mil-Spec 3G-SDI Video Splitter Released

EIZO Rugged Solutions has launched a new ruggedized standalone MIL-STD-810-compliant 3G-SDI video splitter that has been designed for operation in...

Jan 27, 2021
Autonomous USV Used for NOAA Survey

Sea Machines Robotics’ SM300 autonomous-command and remote-helm control system has been used by DEA Marine Services to convert its Sigsbee...

Jan 26, 2021
EIZO Rugged Develops Video & GPGPU Cards for Unmanned Systems

EIZO Rugged Solutions, a leading developer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions for video and sensor data capturing and processing, as...

Jan 26, 2021
New Radar Altimeters Designed to Mitigate 5G Interference

FreeFlight Systems has released a new series of radar altimeters for heavy rotorcraft, turboprops, business aviation, and military segments designed...

Jan 26, 2021
New Rugged MIMO Radio Launched

Horizon31 has introduced the MobileMesh Radio, a portable, ruggedized secure IP radio designed for mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) applications...

Jan 25, 2021
BVLOS Missile Target Designation Performed by Drone

MBDA has successfully performed the first demonstration of its LynkEUs Dismounted system, which pairs an MMP anti-tank missile system in...

Jan 25, 2021
Flock Provides EASA-Compliant Commercial Drone Insurance

Flock has partnered with leading aviation underwriter Sompo International, allowing drone pilots and operators across Europe to access EASA-compliant commercial...

Jan 25, 2021
Forest Fire Monitoring with Drones and Wind Sensors

FT Technologies’ FT205 wind sensor has been used in conjunction with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to predict the progress...

Jan 25, 2021
Enhancing Safety & Efficiency for the Utilities Industry with Drones

SOARIZON has released the following article that outlines how power and utilities industries such as oil and gas, wind farms...

Jan 25, 2021
Ophir Receives Leonardo DRS 2020 Supplier Recognition Award

MKS Instruments, Inc has announced that Ophir Optics Group has been honored with a 2020 Supplier Recognition Award from Leonardo...

Jan 25, 2021
DARPA Gremlins UAS & Recovery System Completes Third Test

Dynetics has successfully completed a third test flight series with its prototype unmanned aerial system (UAS) and retrieval mechanism for...

Jan 22, 2021
High-Accuracy Inertial Navigation Systems for LiDAR Surveying

OxTS has released a brochure detailing how its range of high-accuracy inertial navigation systems (INS) can be integrated with a...

Jan 22, 2021
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