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.

AEE Selects Qualcomm Flight Embedded Platform for Drones

AEE Aviation Technology has announced that it will integrate the Qualcomm Flight embedded drone development platform to bring advanced functionality...

Jan 08, 2018
Kittyhawk Adds Automated Flight System to Drone Operations Platform

Kittyhawk, a developer of commercial drone operations software, has announced the addition of new features to its drone operations platform....

Jan 08, 2018
NavCom Technology Develops High-Precision GNSS Positioning Solutions for Unmanned Vehicles

NavCom Technology, a leading developer of advanced GNSS solutions for systems integrators and OEMs of unmanned vehicles, has partnered with...

Jan 08, 2018
Al Marakeb Announces New Dual-Mode Unmanned Surface Vessel

Al Marakeb, a manufacturer of marine autonomous vessels, has announced the launch of its latest offering, the B7X, an unmanned...

Jan 06, 2018
Sony Releases 100 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for UAVs

FRAMOS has announced the availability of Sony Semiconductor Solutions’ new consumer-grade ultrahigh resolution CMOS image sensor, the IMX211. Designed for...

Jan 05, 2018
CEVA Unveils New Family of AI Processors

CEVA, a developer of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence processors, has unveiled NeuPro, a specialized Artificial Intelligence (AI) processor...

Jan 05, 2018
AeroVironment to Develop Solar-Powered HALE UAS

AeroVironment has announced the formation of a joint venture with Japanese telecommunications firm HAPSMobile to develop solar-powered high-altitude long-endurance, or...

Jan 04, 2018
AI Technology Selected for US Army’s UAS Fleet

Stryke Industries LLC has announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army as part of the...

Jan 04, 2018
Certified Version of Orion UAS to be Developed

Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has confirmed that they have been awarded a new $48 million contract by the...

Jan 04, 2018
Materion Composite Materials Selected for Global Hawk UAS Multispectral Imaging Sensor

Materion Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a contract by UTC Aerospace Systems for AlBeMet metal matrix composite...

Jan 04, 2018
LG Electronics and HERE Technologies to Develop Autonomous Vehicle Telematics

LG Electronics has announced that it has partnered with HERE Technologies, a provider of digital mapping and location services, to...

Dec 31, 2017
Ballard Launches New Fuel Cell System for Drones

Ballard Power Systems has announced that the company has developed a next-generation high-performance fuel cell propulsion system to power unmanned...

Dec 31, 2017
NV Energy Adopts UAS Technology for Utility Operations

NV Energy has announced that it has partnered with the FAA-designated Nevada UAS Test Site, managed by the Nevada Institute...

Dec 31, 2017
Drone Delivery Canada Achieves Compliant Status for Cargo Delivery Drone

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has announced that Transport Canada has accepted the company’s Declaration of Compliance for the X1000 Sparrow...

Dec 29, 2017
AirMap Trials New Zealand’s First Drone Traffic Management System

AirMap has announced that it has partnered with Airways New Zealand to deploy an unmanned traffic management system that enables...

Dec 29, 2017
Hybrid Drone Sets Flight Endurance Record

Quaternium, a developer of long-endurance multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced that it has set a new world record...

Dec 28, 2017
Framos Technologies Provides Embedded Vision Solutions for Unmanned Systems

Framos Technologies, a leading provider of embedded cameras, lenses and image sensors, has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”) to...

Dec 24, 2017
Sagetech Transponder Enables UAS Operations in Civil Airspace

Sagetech Corporation has announced that it has demonstrated the safe flight of a small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) in controlled...

Dec 24, 2017
FAA and ASSURE Announce Results of Drone-Aircraft Collision Study

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) have announced the results...

Dec 23, 2017
DJI Introduces Intelligent Power Drone Battery Station

DJI has announced the introduction of the DJI Battery Station, designed for professionals seeking advanced battery management to handle any...

Dec 22, 2017
NASA Tests Unmanned Aircraft with Lightweight Flexible Wings

NASA has announced that it plans to perform a series of tests with the subscale X-56A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...

Dec 22, 2017
Elbit Seagull USV Demonstrates Mine Counter Measure Capabilities

Elbit Systems has announced that its Seagull Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) has participated in a recent joint exercise between the...

Dec 22, 2017
Sea Machines Develops Autonomous Control System for Commercial Marine Vessels

Sea Machines Robotics has announced the availability of the Sea Machines 300, an Autonomous Control System for commercial marine vessels....

Dec 21, 2017
Milrem Adds Waypoint Navigation to Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Milrem Robotics has announced that it has developed and demonstrated an autonomous waypoint navigation solution for its THeMIS unmanned ground...

Dec 21, 2017
Boeing Unveils Design for U.S. Navy Unmanned Refuelling Aircraft

Boeing has announced that it has unveiled its design for the U.S. Navy’s competition to develop an unmanned aircraft system...

Dec 20, 2017
SolAero Technologies and Johns Hopkins to Develop Integrated Solar UAS Wing

SolAero Technologies Corp., a provider of high-efficiency solar cells and composite structural products for aerospace applications, has announced that it...

Dec 20, 2017
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