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.

Pix4D Launches Drone Mapping Software Certification Program
Pix4D Launches Drone Mapping Software Certification Program

Pix4D has announced that it has launched a certification program for its Pix4dmapper drone mapping photogrammetry software, which will allow...

Sep 30, 2017
Inertial Labs Announces New Industrial and Tactical Grades of IMU
Inertial Labs Announces New Industrial and Tactical Grades of IMU

Inertial Labs has announced the release of new “Industrial” and “Tactical” grades of the company’s IMU-P MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit....

Sep 29, 2017
Thales to Develop New UK Facilities For Unmanned Systems Test & Training
Thales to Develop New UK Facilities For Unmanned Systems Test & Training

Thales has announced that, following successful trials during the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior exercise in 2016, the company is now...

Sep 29, 2017
New GPS Firewall Provides Security Against Spoofing and Jamming Threats
New GPS Firewall Provides Security Against Spoofing and Jamming Threats

Microsemi Corporation has announced the recent development of a new approach to protecting critical infrastructure against GPS spoofing and jamming...

Sep 29, 2017
NOAA Uses UAVs to Track and Model Hurricane Maria
NOAA Uses UAVs to Track and Model Hurricane Maria

Raytheon has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has used six of the company’s Coyote unmanned aerial...

Sep 28, 2017
Trimble Announces New Base Station for UAV Mapping
Trimble Announces New Base Station for UAV Mapping

Trimble has announced the release of its new GNSS Smart Target Base Station for high-accuracy mapping from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...

Sep 28, 2017
FreeWave Launches App Server Software for Unmanned Systems IoT Applications
FreeWave Launches App Server Software for Unmanned Systems IoT Applications

FreeWave Technologies, a developer of Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) wireless networking solutions, has announced the...

Sep 28, 2017
GeniusPros Technologies to Unveil New Optical Solid-State Laser Radars
GeniusPros Technologies to Unveil New Optical Solid-State Laser Radars

GeniusPros Technologies (GPT), a developer of 3D time-of-flight (ToF) sensor systems, has announced that the company will introduce three new...

Sep 28, 2017
EMCORE Unveils Precision FOG-Based Inertial Measurement / Navigation Unit
EMCORE Unveils Precision FOG-Based Inertial Measurement / Navigation Unit

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of advanced Mixed-Signal Optics products that provide the foundation for today’s high-speed communication network infrastructures...

Sep 28, 2017
Hydroid Demonstrates Latest Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
Hydroid Demonstrates Latest Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

Hydroid has announced that, in conjunction with partners L3 Aerospace Systems, Sparton Corporation and AeroVironment, it has successfully demonstrated the...

Sep 27, 2017
AUDS Counter-Drone System Upgraded for Vehicle Deployment and Anti-Swarm Attacks
AUDS Counter-Drone System Upgraded for Vehicle Deployment and Anti-Swarm Attacks

The developers of the AUDS counter-UAS defence system have announced that it has been enhanced for deployment on military and...

Sep 26, 2017
Honeywell Launches New UAV Industrial Inspection Service
Honeywell Launches New UAV Industrial Inspection Service

Honeywell has announced that it has launched its first commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection service, the Honeywell InView inspection...

Sep 26, 2017
New Mapping Drone Features 3G/4G Communications and Onboard Processing
New Mapping Drone Features 3G/4G Communications and Onboard Processing

Delair has announced that it will introduce its next-generation professional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the UX11,...

Sep 26, 2017
NGC Remotec Introduces New Multimission UGV
NGC Remotec Introduces New Multimission UGV

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s subsidiary Remotec Inc. has announced that it has unveiled the newest member of its Andros line of...

Sep 26, 2017
Aurora Flight Sciences Wins Swiss Innovation Award
Aurora Flight Sciences Wins Swiss Innovation Award

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that the company has been awarded with a 2017 Tell Award, which honours U.S. companies...

Sep 26, 2017
Long-Endurance Portable UAV Introduced for Commercial Applications
Long-Endurance Portable UAV Introduced for Commercial Applications

Skyeton has announced the introduction of its new ACS series of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The ACS is a modular...

Sep 26, 2017
PrecisionHawk Developing Survey-Grade Drone LiDAR
PrecisionHawk Developing Survey-Grade Drone LiDAR

PrecisionHawk has announced that it is preparing to provide its customers with a drone LiDAR solution that matches or exceeds...

Sep 26, 2017
DJI Outlines Solutions For Managing And Monitoring Unmanned Aircraft Traffic
DJI Outlines Solutions For Managing And Monitoring Unmanned Aircraft Traffic

DJI has announced that it has presented a robust system for managing and monitoring drone traffic in two white papers...

Sep 25, 2017
OpenWorks Engineering Announces Automatic Drone Capture System
OpenWorks Engineering Announces Automatic Drone Capture System

OpenWorks Engineering has announced the launch of a new technology that allows authorities the ability to remotely and automatically capture...

Sep 25, 2017
Threod Systems Develops New Tactical Fixed-Wing UAS
Threod Systems Develops New Tactical Fixed-Wing UAS

Threod Systems has announced that the company is developing an updated variant of its Stream small tactical unmanned aircraft system...

Sep 25, 2017
MAP Marine Technologies to Launch New USV Conversion Kit
MAP Marine Technologies to Launch New USV Conversion Kit

MAP Marine Technologies (MAP-Tech) has announced that the company will be launching a new and improved second generation of its...

Sep 25, 2017
Whitepaper: UGV Requirements Drive Future HPEC Performance
Whitepaper: UGV Requirements Drive Future HPEC Performance

ADLINK Technology, a developer of rugged embedded computing solutions, has released a whitepaper that discusses the importance of High Performance...

Sep 25, 2017
Drone Station Automatically Swaps Batteries and Packages
Drone Station Automatically Swaps Batteries and Packages

Matternet, developer of an autonomous drone logistics platform, has unveiled the Matternet Station, which enables fully-automated ground operations for Matternet...

Sep 23, 2017
Rolls-Royce Unveils Plans for Long-Range Autonomous Naval Vessel
Rolls-Royce Unveils Plans for Long-Range Autonomous Naval Vessel

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has revealed plans for an autonomous naval vessel with a range of 3500 nautical miles....

Sep 22, 2017
Spirent and Cranfield University to Develop Connected Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Spirent and Cranfield University to Develop Connected Autonomous Vehicle Technology

Spirent Communications, a developer of Galileo, GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) testing solutions, has announced a partnership...

Sep 22, 2017
Volz Servos Achieve Over 200,000 Flight Hours in Aerosonde SUAS
Volz Servos Achieve Over 200,000 Flight Hours in Aerosonde SUAS

Volz Servos has announced that the company’s servos have successfully flown over 200,000 hours in Textron Systems’ Aerosonde Mk4.7 Small...

Sep 22, 2017
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