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.

DARPA Project to Develop Enhanced Reactions for Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles

DARPA has launched the Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program, which aims to develop new algorithms for...

Oct 11, 2020
New Enterprise Drone Solution Features Auterion Software

Auterion and Freefly Systems have launched the Astro Enterprise Drone Solution, combining their respective expertise in hardware and software to...

Oct 10, 2020
UAVOS Tests HAPS UAV Flight Control System

UAVOS has successfully tested the flight control system for its ApusDuo high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), confirming that...

Oct 10, 2020
Fuel Cell Power Module Integrated into Long-Endurance Heavy Lift UAV

Intelligent Energy’s (IE) 2.4kW Fuel Cell Power Module (FCPM) has been integrated into ISS Aerospace’s heavy-lift fuel cell powered UAV...

Oct 10, 2020
Sea Machines Selected for DoD Replenishment Vessels

Sea Machines Robotics’ autonomous command and control technology for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) has been selected by the U.S. Department...

Oct 10, 2020
Steadicopter Develops Autonomous Helicopter UAVs for Tactical Applications

Steadicopter, a leading designer and manufacturer of fully autonomous rotary unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology...

Oct 10, 2020
Fixed-Wing UAV Incorporates Cloud-Penetrating SAR

Skyeton has enhanced the ISR (Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) capabilities of its Raybird-3 fixed-wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) with the...

Oct 10, 2020
Wi-Fi-Free Secure GNSS-INS Enclosure Introduced

NovAtel has launched the PwrPak7Q-E2, the latest addition to its family of PwrPak7 combined GNSS-INS enclosures. With no Wi-Fi chip...

Oct 10, 2020
SKELDAR V-150 VTOL UAS Completes First Remote Autonomous Flight

UMS SKELDAR has successfully achieved remote automatic flight with its V-150 VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) UAS (unmanned aerial system)...

Oct 10, 2020
Dedrone Launches Next-Generation Drone Detection Sensor

Dedrone has launched its next-generation drone detection solution, the RF-360, which detects, classifies and localizes unwanted or malicious drones via...

Oct 09, 2020
Autonomous Reversing Developed for US Army Trailer-Towing UGVs

Robotic Research has updated its AutoDrive-M autonomy kit with a Retrotraverse capability that allows autonomous trucks with trailers to reverse....

Oct 09, 2020
Rapid Delivery System Released for Multirotor Drones

A2Z Drone Delivery has launched the RDS1 (Rapid Delivery System), a tethered freefall drone delivery mechanism available as an add-on...

Oct 09, 2020
New Hybrid-Electric Technologies for UAVs Under Development

LiquidPiston has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the U.S. Army to develop its X-Engine...

Oct 09, 2020
UAV Real-Time Operating System Achieves First Flight

Mannarino Systems & Software has successfully tested its M-RTOS real-time operating system on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fully controlled...

Oct 08, 2020
SeeByte deliver step change in linking underwater autonomy and communications

SeeByte, a global leader in developing smart software solutions for unmanned maritime systems have successfully linked autonomy and communications to...

Oct 08, 2020
Advanced Comms Payload Pod Tested on MQ-9 UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has successfully completed initial operational assessment of the Rosetta Echo Advanced Payloads (REAP) pod...

Oct 07, 2020
University of Bergen Acquires Autonomous Underwater Gliders

Teledyne Webb Research, a business unit of Teledyne Marine, has provided the University of Bergen with a number of the...

Oct 06, 2020
New Motor Module Released for Commercial UAVs

IQ Motion Control has launched the Vertiq 6806, a high-performance motor module for commercial UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and robotics....

Oct 06, 2020
GNSS-Aided INS Integrated into Autonomous Tractor

SBG Systems’ Ellipse2-D dual-antenna GNSS-aided INS (Inertial Navigation System) has been integrated into a self-driving tractor developed by South Korean...

Oct 05, 2020
StreamCaster MANET Radio Selected for US Army Tactical Network

Silvus Technologies has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to provide its StreamCaster commercial mobile ad hoc network...

Oct 05, 2020
Autonomous Pod Transport UAS Completes BVLOS Mission

Bell Textron has successfully completed a test flight of its Bell APT (Autonomous Pod Transport) 70 UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)...

Oct 05, 2020
Sensonor Develops High-Precision MEMS Inertial Sensors for Unmanned Systems

Sensonor, a leading developer of miniature tactical-grade gyroscopes and IMUs (inertial measurement units), has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”)...

Oct 04, 2020
Microdrones UAS Used for Construction Site Surveying

Microdrones’ unmanned aerial systems (UAS) solutions have been utilised by civil engineering firm Feldhaus for a variety of construction-related tasks,...

Oct 03, 2020
MQ-4C Triton UAS Deployed for Maritime ISR

Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4C Triton UAS (unmanned aerial system) has been deployed to Guam by the U.S. Navy as part of...

Oct 03, 2020
Magnetometer Calibration for Inertial Systems

Inertial Labs has released a technical article outlining the role of magnetometers in inertial navigation systems (INS) and the various...

Oct 03, 2020
Successful Naval Defense with MIMO & MANET Radios

Triad RF Systems has released a tech brief that details the use of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) MANET (Mobile-Ad-Hoc...

Oct 03, 2020
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