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.

SkyX Drone Completes Autonomous 100km Data Collection Flight

SkyX Systems Corporation, a provider of long-range unmanned aerial monitoring and data collection services, has announced that it has successfully...

Dec 05, 2017
UMS SKELDAR Demonstrates Unmanned Helicopter to German Armed Forces

UMS SKELDAR has announced that, along with its key partner ESG (ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH), it has successfully completed a...

Dec 04, 2017
MicroPilot Integrates Sense & Avoid System into UAV Autopilot

MicroPilot has announced that it has successfully integrated the FLARM Sense and Avoid system with its autopilot, granting clients a...

Dec 04, 2017
Swift Navigation Releases Rugged Multi Dual-Frequency RTK GNSS Receiver

Swift ​​Navigation and ​​​Carnegie ​​Robotics ​​LLC ​​(CRL) have announced ​​the ​​availability ​​of ​​Duro™, ​​an ​​extremely ​​rugged, ​​low-cost, ​​centimeter-accurate, dual-frequency ​​RTK ​​GNSS ​​receiver...

Dec 01, 2017
QinetiQ Simulates UAV Threat for Royal Canadian Navy

QinetiQ Target Systems (QTS) has conducted a live demonstration to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), emulating the threat posed to...

Dec 01, 2017
Case Study: Creating a Nano-Satellite with Additive Manufacturing

CRP USA, a developer of 3D-printing and additive manufacturing technologies, has issued a case study detailing the construction of a...

Nov 30, 2017
European Space Agency Investigates High-Altitude UAVs

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it is considering extending its activities to a new region of the...

Nov 30, 2017
Delair and ECA Group Develop Multi-Drone Ground Station

Delair and ECA Group have announced that the two companies have co-developed a new generation of ground control station (GCS)....

Nov 30, 2017
U.S. Army Autonomous Driving System Logs 55,000 Miles

Lockheed Martin has announced that its Autonomous Mobility Applique System (AMAS) logged more than 55,000 testing miles during the U.S....

Nov 30, 2017
Autonomous Drone Flight Utilizes Mobile Communications Network and 3D Map

Terra Drone, a provider of industrial drone services, and KDDI Corporation, a Japanese telecommunications operator, have announced that the two...

Nov 30, 2017
Speakers Confirmed for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference

SMi has confirmed the speaker line-up for its Robotics and Autonomous Systems conference taking place on 25th and 26th April...

Nov 30, 2017
ScanEagle UAS Assists Disaster Relief and Fire Suppression Missions

Insitu has announced that the company has used its ScanEagle unmanned aerial system (UAS) in assisting with several recent disaster...

Nov 28, 2017
Seafloor-Mapping USV Competes for Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

Kongsberg Maritime has announced that it has supported the GEBCO-NF (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans-Nippon Foundation) Alumni Team, one...

Nov 28, 2017
Alpha Adds Image Stabilization Technology to VTOL UAV

Alpha Unmanned Systems, the manufacturer of the Alpha 800 gasoline-powered helicopter UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), has announced that it has...

Nov 27, 2017
UAVE Demonstrates Long-Endurance Fixed-Wing UAVs

UAVE Ltd., a leading developer of large long-endurance fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”)...

Nov 27, 2017
UMS SKELDAR Unveils New VTOL UAS Platform

UMS SKELDAR, a provider of rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, has announced the launch of its new enhanced R-350...

Nov 26, 2017
Velodyne LiDAR and UMS to Develop Autonomous Vehicle Technologies

Velodyne LiDAR, a developer of 3D vision systems for autonomous vehicles, has announced that it is partnering with Unmanned Solution...

Nov 24, 2017
ASV Adds Autonomous Capabilities to Hydrographic Survey Vessel

ASV Global has announced that it has converted a 26ft hydrographic survey launch to enable it to operate autonomously using...

Nov 24, 2017
ECA Group Unveils New Drone-Mounted Signal Intelligence Solution

ECA Group, a developer of robotics for challenging environments, has announced its new IMSI-Catcher signal intelligence module designed to integrate...

Nov 23, 2017
SwiftCore FMS to be Integrated on Penguin BE UAV for NOAA Mission

Black Swift Technologies (BST) has announced that it’s SwiftCore Flight Management System (FMS) will be integrated with a UAV Factory...

Nov 23, 2017
Whitepaper: Remote Hydrogen Refuelling for UAVs

Protonex, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ballard and developer advanced fuel cell power solutions for UAVs, has released a technical...

Nov 23, 2017
Uavos Develops Pan-Tilt Platform for Drone Tracking Systems

Uavos has announced the introduction of the OPU-03, a rotary turret manipulator on a pan-tilt platform designed to accommodate observation...

Nov 23, 2017
3DR Integrates Site Scan Drone Data Platform with Autodesk BIM 360

3DR has announced that it has integrated its Site Scan drone data platform for construction and engineering professionals with Autodesk...

Nov 23, 2017
Volvo to Supply Uber with Autonomous Drive Compatible Cars

Volvo Cars has announced that it has signed a framework agreement with Uber to sell tens of thousands of autonomous...

Nov 23, 2017
Tersus Launches New OEM GNSS Positioning & Heading Board

Tersus GNSS has announced the launch of the BX316D, the company’s newest GNSS OEM RTK & PPK board designed to...

Nov 21, 2017
Tuco Marine Adds Autonomous Control Option to Workboats

Sea Machines Robotics has announced a collaboration with Tuco Marine of Denmark to offer remote and autonomous control products as...

Nov 21, 2017
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