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.

AESA Maritime Radar to be Integrated on MQ-9B SeaGuardian UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is integrating Leonardo’s Seaspray 7500E V2 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar into the...

Jan 22, 2021
Drone & UGV Common Control System Joins Wave Relay Ecosystem

Tomahawk Robotics has joined the Wave Relay Ecosystem, an industry alliance of sensor and unmanned system companies that all utilize...

Jan 22, 2021
Steadicopter Partners with Simlat for UAS Simulation Training

Steadicopter has partnered with UAS (unmanned aerial systems) simulation developer Simlat in order to provide a realistic training environment for...

Jan 21, 2021
Tethered Drones for Airport & Public Security

Elistair has released the following article detailing a demonstration conducted in Malaysia that showed how the company’s tethered drone systems...

Jan 21, 2021
New S- and C-Band Omni-Directional Antennas Released

Southwest Antennas has expanded its line of dual-band antenna solutions with the addition of two new S and C-band omni-directional...

Jan 21, 2021
Lithium Batteries & Charging Solutions for Next-Generation Drones

Epsilor Electric Fuel’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Felix Frisch, has authored the following article that outlines how reliable lithium...

Jan 21, 2021
Autonomous Minesweeper USVs Under Development for Royal Navy

Atlas Elektronik UK has been awarded a contract to build three autonomous Combined Influence Minesweeping systems, also known as SWEEP,...

Jan 21, 2021
Microdrones Selects New Distributor for Eastern Europe & Africa

Microdrones’ UAS (unmanned aerial system) solutions for mapping and surveying are now being offered to customers in Eastern Europe and...

Jan 21, 2021
Trimble Launches New High-Precision Smart GNSS Antennas

Trimble has introduced a pair of new high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) smart antennas that are suitable for a...

Jan 21, 2021
YellowScan’s LiDAR for Drone User Conference Announced

YellowScan will be hosting a hybrid LiDAR for Drone User Conference on June 9-11, 2021 in beautiful Domaine de Verchant,...

Jan 20, 2021
DARPA Investigates Simulation Technology for Off-Road UGVs

DARPA is soliciting proposals for promising new technologies to be investigated for its Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency...

Jan 20, 2021
GPS-Denied Navigation for BVLOS Drone Flights Under Development

Black Swift Technologies (BST) has been awarded a contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a...

Jan 20, 2021
Textron Systems Develops UAS Image Processing & Geospatial Data Analysis Software

Textron Systems, a leading developer of data analysis and image processing software for geospatial intelligence, has partnered with Unmanned Systems...

Jan 19, 2021
Infrared Targeting Pod Fitted to Avenger UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has performed a flight test during which its Avenger unmanned aerial system (UAS) was...

Jan 19, 2021
Autonomous Industrial Imaging and Mapping Drones Introduced

Skyfish has formally launched its new line of advanced autonomous work drone platforms, following an extended period of research and...

Jan 19, 2021
Gladiator Technologies Releases Next-Generation Inertial Sensors

Gladiator Technologies has launched its new line of upgraded low noise, high speed MEMS inertial sensors. The SX2 product range...

Jan 18, 2021
Remote Vegetation Sensing With Drones & SWIR Cameras

Raptor Photonics has published an application note detailing how its Owl 640M SWIR (short wave infrared) cameras have been used...

Jan 18, 2021
FarSounder Launches On-Line Training

FarSounder has announced the launch of their on-line training platform. The first training program to be released in the series...

Jan 18, 2021
New Tactical Rapid Deployment Anti-Drone Jammer Launched

Netline has unveiled a new a rapid deployment (RD) tactical drone jamming solution, the DroneNet RD Jammer. The compact solution...

Jan 18, 2021
AI-Enabled UAV Demonstrated to U.S. Army

Scientific Systems Company, Inc (SSCI) has successfully flown its Robotic Autonomous Platform for Tactical Operations and Reconnaissance (RAPTOR) autonomous Unmanned...

Jan 18, 2021
AeroVironment to Acquire Arcturus UAV

AeroVironment has entered into an agreement to acquire Arcturus UAV, a provider of Group 2 and 3 unmanned aircraft systems...

Jan 18, 2021
Smart Antennas Introduced for Agricultural Robotics Autosteering

Harxon has introduced a new family of smart GNSS antennas designed for robotics applications such as autosteering in autonomous tractors...

Jan 17, 2021
Mobilicom Develops Communications & Swarm Solutions for Unmanned Systems

Mobilicom, a leading provider of end-to-end cyber security and smart solutions for UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles)...

Jan 15, 2021
High-Performance SMD MEMS Accelerometer Released

TDK Corporation has released the Tronics AXO315, a miniature high-performance single-axis closed-loop MEMS accelerometer with a 24-bit digital SPI interface....

Jan 15, 2021
New Line of Bi-Directional Amplifiers Launched

Pasternack has launched a new line of bi-directional amplifiers designed to transmit high-quality signals and amplify receive signals with an...

Jan 15, 2021
Initial UTM Services to be Implemented in Finland

Astra UTM has signed an agreement with Fintraffic Air Navigation Services to implement Finland’s initial UTM (unmanned traffic management)-centric services....

Jan 15, 2021
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