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.

SOSA-Compliant VPX AC-DC Power Supply Released
SOSA-Compliant VPX AC-DC Power Supply Released

Aegis Power Systems has launched a new single-phase AC-DC power supply unit (PSU) in the 3U VPX form factor that...

Feb 03, 2021
Maritime Surveillance Systems Tested on SeaGuardian UAS
Maritime Surveillance Systems Tested on SeaGuardian UAS

Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s maritime surveillance technologies have been successfully flight tested on board a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc....

Feb 02, 2021
Counter-UAS Platform Offers Compliance with US & EU Remote ID Standards
Counter-UAS Platform Offers Compliance with US & EU Remote ID Standards

Counter-drone technology platform Dedrone has become the first to provide users with compliance with both U.S. and E.U. government-provided remote...

Feb 02, 2021
CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS Selected by Nordic Unmanned
CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS Selected by Nordic Unmanned

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been selected by drone services provider Nordic Unmanned as its system of...

Feb 02, 2021
UAVOS Introduces New Pan-Tilt Platform for Heavy Payloads
UAVOS Introduces New Pan-Tilt Platform for Heavy Payloads

UAVOS has launched a new two-axis pan-tilt platform designed to support payloads weighing up to 130 kg on real-time long-range...

Feb 02, 2021
New IFF Solutions Provide Enhanced Situational Awareness for UAVs
New IFF Solutions Provide Enhanced Situational Awareness for UAVs

uAvionix has launched a full lineup of Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) solutions for small, tactical, and attritable unmanned aerial...

Feb 01, 2021
Dronecloud to Develop Drone Management Software for Railway Inspection
Dronecloud to Develop Drone Management Software for Railway Inspection

Dronecloud has entered into an agreement to provide management software for the fleet of drones operated by Network Rail, the...

Feb 01, 2021
Silvus to Deliver RF Spectrum Scanning Technology to DARPA
Silvus to Deliver RF Spectrum Scanning Technology to DARPA

Silvus Technologies has been awarded a contract to work on Phase Three of DARPA’s Scalable Wideband Autonomous RF Mapping MANET...

Jan 31, 2021
Sonardyne Technology Selected for USV & ROV Fleet
Sonardyne Technology Selected for USV & ROV Fleet

Sonardyne’s underwater positioning and communications technology has been selected by specialist geo-data firm Fugro to be incorporated into a global...

Jan 31, 2021
Miniature LiDAR Sensor Selected for Autonomous Scanning System
Miniature LiDAR Sensor Selected for Autonomous Scanning System

Velodyne Lidar has entered into an agreement to provide its Puck LITE LiDAR sensors to Emesent, developers of the Hovermap...

Jan 30, 2021
MANET Radio & EO/IR Gimbal Integrated onto Tethered sUAS
MANET Radio & EO/IR Gimbal Integrated onto Tethered sUAS

Zenith AeroTech has successfully integrated an advanced flight radar, gimbaled EO/IR camera, and mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) radio onto...

Jan 30, 2021
UK’s First Medical Drone Delivery Network to be Developed
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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