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.

IMSAR Announces Extended Range Imaging Radar for High Altitudes

IMSAR has announced that it is expanding its line of miniaturized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems to include a new...

Oct 13, 2017
ASV Global and TerraSond Complete First USV-Supported Cable Route Survey

ASV Global and TerraSond have announced that the two companies have completed the first ever seabed cable route survey supported...

Oct 13, 2017
E-Commerce Delivery Pilot Project Pairs Vans with Drones

Mercedes-Benz Vans has announced that, in conjunction with US drone systems developer Matternet and Swiss online marketplace siroop, it has...

Oct 13, 2017
SRC to Provide U.S. Army and Air Force with Counter-UAS Systems

SRC, a not-for-profit research and development company, has announced that it has been awarded a $12.7M contract to provide the...

Oct 13, 2017
Yamaha Motor Unveils Agricultural USV

Yamaha Motor has unveiled the company’s new Water Strider unmanned surface vessel (USV), designed for remotely controlled herbicide spraying work...

Oct 12, 2017
Flirtey Plans Drone Defibrillator Delivery Program

Flirtey, a drone delivery service, and REMSA, a community-integrated emergency medical services provider, have announced a partnership to launch the...

Oct 12, 2017
U.S. Navy to Continue and Expand Blackwing UAS Program

AeroVironment has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the United States Navy for continuation and expansion of...

Oct 11, 2017
Uavos Improves GPS Spoofing Protection for UAVs

Uavos has announced that it has improved its GPS spoofing identification algorithms for its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), protecting against...

Oct 11, 2017
Roboteam Unveils New Tactical UGV

Roboteam, a developer of tactical ground robotic systems, has announced that it has unveiled its new Transportable Interoperable Ground Robot...

Oct 11, 2017
GA-ASI Completes Transition to Gray Eagle Extended Range UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced that it has officially transitioned its production line from the MQ-1C Gray Eagle...

Oct 10, 2017
DTC Develops IP Mesh and Software Defined Radios for Unmanned Systems

Domo Tactical Communications (DTC), a leading developer of surveillance, communications and broadcast technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other...

Oct 10, 2017
New Privacy Mode Stops Internet Data Transfer to DJI Drones

DJI has announced that it has launched a new Local Data Mode that stops internet traffic to and from its...

Oct 10, 2017
New Ultra-Miniature AHRS Developed for Unmanned Navigation

Yost Labs, developers of advanced inertial motion tracking solutions, has released the 3-Space Sensor™ LX, an ultra-miniature Attitude & Heading Reference...

Oct 10, 2017
DTC Releases Robust 5W IP Wireless Mesh Radio for Unmanned Vehicles

Domo Tactical Communications (DTC), a specialist in IP Mesh Networks and Video technology, has released an integrated 5 Watt IP...

Oct 10, 2017
AeroVironment to Upgrade Puma and Raven Small UAS

AeroVironment, Inc. has announced that its Puma™ AE and Raven® small unmanned aircraft systems, the most widely deployed drones in the United States Department of...

Oct 10, 2017
New Geospatial Solution Turns Drones into Accurate Mapping Systems

Verity has announced the release of Verity Mapper, a complete drone mapping solution that combines professional geospatial products to enable...

Oct 10, 2017
RT LTA Systems Unveils Upgraded Skystar 100 Aerostat

RT LTA Systems, a developer of aerostats for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and communications applications, has announced that it will present...

Oct 09, 2017
Endeavor Robotics to Develop UGV Platform for U.S. Army

Endeavor Robotics, a developer of tactical ground robotics, has announced that it has been awarded the United States Department of...

Oct 09, 2017
Applanix Updates Positioning and Orientation System for Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Applanix has announced the introduction of an updated version of its POS LVX system, which provides high-accuracy positioning and orientation...

Oct 07, 2017
Pix4Dmapper 4.0 Features Machine Learning Point Cloud Technology

Pix4D has announced that it has released version 4.0 of the company’s Pix4Dmapper software, which introduces supervised machine-learning point cloud...

Oct 06, 2017
Article: Achieving Three Phase Active Power Factor Correction in a Single Step

Marotta Controls, Inc. has released a technical article which explains how their 1-STEP AC-DC Conversion™ circuit solution improves the performance...

Oct 06, 2017
Boeing to Acquire Aurora Flight Sciences to Advance Autonomous Aircraft Technologies

Boeing has announced plans to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of advanced aerospace platforms, under an...

Oct 05, 2017
Trimble Announces New GNSS Systems for UAVs

Trimble has announced the introduction of three new GNSS-Inertial Systems for Direct Georeferencing on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): the Trimble...

Oct 04, 2017
Insitu Demonstrates GIS-Enabled UAS for Fighting Wildfires

Insitu has announced that together with Esri, a specialist spatial analytics company, it has successfully completed test flights for a...

Oct 04, 2017
Aitech Announces New Rugged Low Power 6U VME Single Board Computer

Aitech Defense Systems has introduced a new rugged 6U VME single board computer (SBC) that brings the powerful QorIQ T1042,...

Oct 04, 2017
UAV Propulsion Tech to Distribute Nova Ray ROV

UAV Propulsion Tech has announced that it has signed a distributor agreement with Coral Partners to market their family of...

Oct 03, 2017
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