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.

Materion Composite Materials Selected for Global Hawk UAS Multispectral Imaging Sensor
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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Netherlands Aerospace Centre Researches Naval Unmanned Helicopter Operations
Netherlands Aerospace Centre Researches Naval Unmanned Helicopter Operations

The Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) has announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Delft Dynamics and Damen Naval...

Dec 20, 2017
Airbus and Williams to Collaborate on High-Altitude Solar-Powered UAS
Airbus and Williams to Collaborate on High-Altitude Solar-Powered UAS

Airbus and Williams Advanced Engineering have announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership to explore potential areas...

Dec 20, 2017
Trig Avionics Launches New Certified UAS BVLOS Solution
Trig Avionics Launches New Certified UAS BVLOS Solution

Trig Avionics has announced the launch of the TT26, a certified transponder that allows UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) platforms to...

Dec 19, 2017
U.S. Army and Marine Corps to Develop 3D-Printed Drones
U.S. Army and Marine Corps to Develop 3D-Printed Drones

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has announced that it is working with the U.S. Marine Corps to develop 3D...

Dec 19, 2017
Honeywell Targets Unmanned Systems with High-Accuracy IMU Technology
Honeywell Targets Unmanned Systems with High-Accuracy IMU Technology

Honeywell has announced that its navigation technology, previously established as a key component within defense applications, is now available to...

Dec 19, 2017
Kawasaki Completes Verification Test for Pipeline Inspection AUV
Kawasaki Completes Verification Test for Pipeline Inspection AUV

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has announced the successful completion of a verification test for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in UK...

Dec 18, 2017
H-Scientific Integrates Autopilot System with WAM-V Catamaran
H-Scientific Integrates Autopilot System with WAM-V Catamaran

H-Scientific Ltd., a technology provider for the autonomous marine market, has announced that, working in conjunction with Marine Advanced Research...

Dec 18, 2017
DTC to Provide Wireless Radios for Autonomous Vehicles
DTC to Provide Wireless Radios for Autonomous Vehicles

Domo Tactical Communications (DTC), a developer of wireless communication technologies, has announced that the company has been awarded an initial...

Dec 15, 2017
Fire Scout UAS to Serve as Forward Spotter for US Navy Ships
Fire Scout UAS to Serve as Forward Spotter for US Navy Ships

The U.S. Navy has announced that its MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will receive a new radar and...

Dec 15, 2017
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