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.

Phase One Camera Integration with OxTS INS

OxTS has announced the integration of its real-time inertial navigation systems with Phase One’s iXU aerial camera system. The integration...

Mar 29, 2018
Cepton Launches New 3D LiDAR Solution for Autonomous Vehicles

Cepton Technologies, Inc., a provider of 3D LiDAR solutions for automotive, industrial and mapping applications, has announced that it has...

Mar 28, 2018
Sentera Announces High-Precision Agricultural Sensor for DJI Matrice 200 Drones

Sentera has announced the availability of the company’s new AGX710 gimbaled precision agriculture sensor with plug-and-play integration for DJI’s Matrice...

Mar 28, 2018
IARPA Announces Drone Imagery Prize Challenge

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has announced the UG2...

Mar 28, 2018
New Cargo Drone to Lift 400lb Payloads

Drone Delivery Canada has announced that it has commenced development of its newest cargo delivery drone, the Condor, with a...

Mar 28, 2018
NASA UTM Program Completes Level 3 Testing at Nevada UAS Test Site

The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) has announced that, along with its NASA Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) partners, it...

Mar 27, 2018
Raytheon Develops Unmanned Vehicle Swarm Technology

Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies has announced that, under DARPA’s Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program, it is developing technology to direct and control...

Mar 27, 2018
AeroVironment Unveils Upgraded Puma 3 sUAS

AeroVironment has announced that the company is now taking orders for its new Puma 3 small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS)....

Mar 27, 2018
Schiebel Demonstrates Heavy Fuel Variant of CAMCOPTER UAS to Royal Australian Navy

Schiebel has successfully demonstrated the heavy fuel variant of its CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) as part of its...

Mar 26, 2018
Whitepaper: Integrating SAASM GPS and INS

Sparton Navigation and Exploration, a developer of advanced inertial sensor systems, has released a whitepaper that discusses the advantages of...

Mar 26, 2018
3W-International Expands in Response to Increased Demand

Hessian company 3W-International is expanding its sales structure and project management capacity in response to increased demand for its 2-stroke...

Mar 26, 2018
DJI and Skycatch to Deliver Industrial Construction Drone Fleet

DJI and commercial drone data company Skycatch have announced that they have extended their partnership to manufacture and deliver a...

Mar 26, 2018
Drone Innovation Startup Winner Will Receive $500,000 Funding

Krypto Labs, a company focused on the support and development of start-up businesses, have launched the “Drone Innovation Startup contest”...

Mar 26, 2018
CMU Robot to Measure Radiation at DOE Nuclear Facility

Autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have been commissioned to drive through miles of pipes at the...

Mar 23, 2018
Applied Acoustics Expands Product Range

Applied Acoustics has introduced two new products from both its acoustic positioning and geophysical product lines. The flagship USBL system,...

Mar 23, 2018
Sentera Releases RTK GPS Module for PHX Fixed-Wing UAV

Sentera has released an RTK GPS precision positioning module for the PHX™ Pro fixed-wing drone. The module delivers true L1/L2,...

Mar 23, 2018
Raytheon Demonstrates Microwave and Laser Counter-Drone System

Raytheon has announced that its high-power microwave and laser counter-drone system has been demonstrated during the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment...

Mar 22, 2018
Simulation Solution Developed for ROV Training & Demonstrations

Forum Subsea Technologies and BluHaptics have announced a joint agreement enabling technologies from both companies to be combined to provide...

Mar 22, 2018
Black Swift and NASA to Develop Next-Gen Sensors for Agricultural Drones

Black Swift Technologies (BST) has announced the expansion of a pathfinder mission with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to develop...

Mar 20, 2018
U.S. Department of the Interior Acquires New UAS Fleet

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced that it will soon have the use of up to 50...

Mar 20, 2018
Schiebel Provides High-Performance VTOL UAS for Civil and Military Applications

Schiebel, a leading global designer and manufacturer of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned helicopters, has partnered with Unmanned Systems...

Mar 20, 2018
Autonomous Technologies Integrated into Commercial Agricultural Vehicles

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) has announced that the company’s technology has been selected for use in two pilot programs with...

Mar 20, 2018
Drone Delivery Canada Completes First USA Test Flights

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has announced that it has completed a series of successful test flights in the United States...

Mar 19, 2018
Aeroprobe UAV Air Data Computers Achieve Military and FAA Certifications

Aeroprobe Corporation has announced that its Pegasus and Destiny Micro Air Data Computer (µADC) models have achieved U.S. Military MIL-STD...

Mar 19, 2018
uAvionix Releases CONOPS White Paper for ADS-B Spectrum Mitigation

uAvionix,  a manufacturer of ADS-B solutions, has released a Concept of Operations (CONOPS) White Paper that outlines a spectrum mitigation approach called...

Mar 19, 2018
ASV Global to Develop Containerised Autonomous Marine Lab

ASV Global has announced that it is working with the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) to develop a containerised autonomous...

Mar 19, 2018
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