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.

Registration is Open for InterDrone Online
Registration is Open for InterDrone Online

InterDrone, The International Drone Conference & Expo, Launches InterDrone Online, a digital networking event for the commercial drone industry.  InterDrone Online is a...

Oct 15, 2020
GESAR Develops Long-Range & Autonomous Unmanned Systems
GESAR Develops Long-Range & Autonomous Unmanned Systems

GESAR Inc is a developer and manufacturer of customized robots and unmanned systems. In addition to a number of off-the-shelf...

Oct 14, 2020
Schiebel Pacific Expands Capabilities in Australia
Schiebel Pacific Expands Capabilities in Australia

Schiebel Pacific has begun expanding its business following increased demand for the company’s CAMCOPTER S-100 Vertical Take Off and Landing...

Oct 14, 2020
Solar HAPS UAV Surpasses 60,000 Feet
Solar HAPS UAV Surpasses 60,000 Feet

AeroVironment has announced that, in conjunction with HAPSMobile, it has successfully completed a test flight with the Sunglider solar-powered high-altitude...

Oct 14, 2020
New Mil-Spec DC-DC Converters Launched
New Mil-Spec DC-DC Converters Launched

SynQor has expanded its Mil-COTS (military commercial-off-the-shelf) DC-DC product range with two new full-brick DC-DC converters based on the company’s...

Oct 14, 2020
Command & Control Software Upgraded for Gray Eagle ER UAS
Command & Control Software Upgraded for Gray Eagle ER UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has introduced a new laptop-based interface for its Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned...

Oct 14, 2020
NVIDIA Turing-Based GPGPU Card Introduced for AI Applications
NVIDIA Turing-Based GPGPU Card Introduced for AI Applications

Aitech Systems’ C530 GPGPU (General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) 3U VPX board is now offered with GPUs based on NVIDIA’s Turing...

Oct 14, 2020
Case Study: High-Accuracy Drone LiDAR Mapping with INS
Case Study: High-Accuracy Drone LiDAR Mapping with INS

OxTS has released a case study detailing how the company’s xNAV250 miniature inertial navigation system (INS) was used to provide...

Oct 13, 2020
The Autonomous Network to Power Robotics on Land, Air & Sea
The Autonomous Network to Power Robotics on Land, Air & Sea

Rajant has released the following article detailing the way in which its Kinetic Mesh wireless network can provide the continuous mobile...

Oct 13, 2020
Multi-Sensor Positioning Solution Launched for Drones & Robotics
Multi-Sensor Positioning Solution Launched for Drones & Robotics

Fixposition has launched the Vision-RTK, a centimeter-accurate positioning solution that uses a unique sensor fusion algorithm to integrate GNSS, camera...

Oct 12, 2020
DTC MANET Mesh Radios Selected for Royal Navy USVs
DTC MANET Mesh Radios Selected for Royal Navy USVs

DTC Communications’ (DTC) Phase 4 MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Networking) mesh radio has been selected by BAE Systems as the...

Oct 12, 2020
Security Enhancements Allow UAS Flight Planning Solution to be Used in US and EU
Security Enhancements Allow UAS Flight Planning Solution to be Used in US and EU

Esri has introduced new capabilities for its Site Scan unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flight planning and processing solution that will...

Oct 11, 2020
RIEGL Unveils New UAV LiDAR Scanners
RIEGL Unveils New UAV LiDAR Scanners

RIEGL has developed two new airborne LiDAR scanners developed specifically for use on UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). The new products...

Oct 11, 2020
DARPA Project to Develop Enhanced Reactions for Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles
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
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 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
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 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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