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.

AERTEC Fixed-Wing UAV Completes Automated Flight Tests on Sand

AERTEC Solutions has announced that its fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform, TARSIS 75, has completed automated flight tests on...

Jun 24, 2018
British Army to Test Unmanned Systems During Autonomous Warrior

The UK Ministry of Defence has announced that it will be testing a range of prototype unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...

Jun 22, 2018
MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS Begins Testing Aboard USS Coronado

The U.S. Navy has announced that USS Coronado (LCS 4) has begun operational testing of the Navy’s newest unmanned helicopter,...

Jun 22, 2018
NASA Flies Ikhana UAS in Public Airspace Without Chase Plane

NASA has announced that its remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, has...

Jun 21, 2018
MQ-9B UAS Undergoes Lightning Tests

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that it has used its second full-scale MQ-9B unmanned aerial system (UAS)...

Jun 21, 2018
Haulage Mining Fleet to be Converted for Autonomous Operations

Autonomous Solutions, Inc.’s ASI Mining has announced that it has begun work on a project with Barrick Gold Corporation to...

Jun 20, 2018
DOI selects ScanEagle UAS for Fire Suppression Missions

Insitu has announced that it has received a first-of-its kind contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to...

Jun 19, 2018
DARPA Awards Phase II Funding for Rotary UAV Diesel Engine Development

LiquidPiston has announced that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the company an additional $2.5 million...

Jun 19, 2018
Curtiss-Wright & Lynx Offer Safety Bundle for DO-254 Certifiable Intel SBCs

Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division has announced a collaboration with Lynx Software Technologies to offer the LynxSecure Safety Bundle on its...

Jun 19, 2018
ALTI Develops Hybrid VTOL Fixed-Wing UAVs for Commercial Applications

ALTI UAS, a leading developer and manufacturer of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”)...

Jun 19, 2018
Black Swift to Develop UAS for Atmospheric Observations of Venus

Black Swift Technologies (BST), a developer of purpose-built scientific aerial platforms, has announced that it has been awarded a NASA...

Jun 18, 2018
Fischer Launches New Breakthrough Plug & Use Connectivity Solutions

Fischer Connectors has announced the launch of its new Freedom Series, which offers breakthrough plug & use connectivity solutions that...

Jun 18, 2018
Airbus to Provide Heron TP Drones to German Armed Forces

Airbus has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service...

Jun 18, 2018
Endurance-Boosting Solar Technologies Developed for UAVs

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have announced that they are developing technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...

Jun 18, 2018
SRC Confirmed as Gold Sponsor for UAV Technology Conference

SMi Group has recently announced SRC Inc, an independent, non-for-profit, research and development corporation, as the newest gold sponsors for...

Jun 18, 2018
Milrem Robotics and MBDA to Develop Anti-Tank UGV

Milrem Robotics and missile systems designer MBDA have announced that the two companies are to develop the world’s first unmanned...

Jun 14, 2018
U.S. Army Orders Autonomy Kits for Convoy Resupply Vehicles

Robotic Research has announced that the U.S. Army has awarded the company a 3-year, $49.7 million contract to provide Autonomy...

Jun 14, 2018
Gladiator Technologies Achieves AS9100D Quality Certification

Gladiator Technologies, a division of LKD Aerospace, has achieved third-party certification to AS9100D. The certification applies to all design, distribution,...

Jun 14, 2018
Leica Geosystems Launches New 3D Mapping UAS

Leica Geosystems has announced the launch of the new Leica Aibot, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system based on DJI’s...

Jun 14, 2018
Insitu to Provide UAS ISR Services for U.S. Coast Guard

Insitu has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) ISR services aboard...

Jun 13, 2018
Advanced ROV Developed for Pipeline Inspection

Aquam Corporation, a provider of risk mitigation technologies for water and energy transmission and distribution assets, has announced the launch...

Jun 13, 2018
New AI-Based Engine Automates Drone GCP Workflow

vHive, a developer of cloud-based AI solutions for drone-based field data gathering, has announced the availability of a fully automated...

Jun 13, 2018
GA-ASI Detect-and-Avoid System Aids NASA UAS Flight

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced that its Detect and Avoid (DAA) avionics system was the key technology...

Jun 13, 2018
DroneDeploy Develops Real-Time Thermal Mapping Solution for UAVs

DroneDeploy, a developer of drone software, has announced the launch of Thermal Live Map, a real-time mobile mapping solution which...

Jun 12, 2018
Interview: FT Technologies on Latest UAV Wind Sensor

FT Technologies is a leading manufacturer of rugged wind sensors for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the company’s new FT205...

Jun 12, 2018
Microdrones md4-3000 Achieves Transport Canada Compliance

Microdrones has announced that its md4-3000 UAV has been added to Transport Canada’s (TC) exclusive list of compliant unmanned aerial...

Jun 12, 2018
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