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.

DJI And Hasselblad Announce 100-Megapixel Integrated Aerial Photography Platform

DJI and professional camera developer Hasselblad have announced the introduction of what the two companies claim is the first 100-megapixel...

Apr 25, 2017
WiBotic Receives New Funding for Wireless Power Solutions for Robotics

WiBotic, a developer of wireless power and battery intelligence solutions for the robotics industry, has announced that it has raised...

Apr 25, 2017
New Production Facility for Predator B UAS Landing Gear Opened in the Netherlands

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and GKN Aerospace’s Fokker business, a developer of landing gear technologies, have announced the official opening...

Apr 25, 2017
NWUAV Develops New Twin-Cylinder Multi-Fuel UAV Engine

Northwest UAV (NWUAV) has started development of its new NW-88 Twin-Cylinder Multi-Fuel UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) propulsion system based on...

Apr 24, 2017
New Small Form Factor LiDAR Sensor Developed for Autonomous Vehicles

Velodyne LiDAR has announced its new fixed-laser, solid-state Velarray LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor, a high-performance and rugged automotive...

Apr 24, 2017
OxTS Launches New GNSS/INS System for Space-Constrained Applications

Oxford Technical Solutions (OxTS) has announced the launch of the RT1003, a compact single-box GNSS/INS system specifically developed for Advanced...

Apr 24, 2017
KDE Motors Power Aerial Cinematography UAS

KDE Direct has confirmed that its industrial drone components were fitted to a heavy lift multicopter drone used to film...

Apr 23, 2017
Silvus Announces Long-Range 4×4 MIMO Radio for Unmanned Systems

Silvus Technologies has announced that it will showcase its new StreamCaster 4400 radio at the AUVSI XPONENTIAL show. The SC4400...

Apr 22, 2017
XDynamics Unveils New Modular Customizable Industrial Drone

XDynamics has announced the introduction of the D-02, its next-generation aerial platform for professional drone cinematography and industrial applications. The...

Apr 22, 2017
MAP Marine Technologies Develops Autonomous Navigation Solutions for USVs

MAP Marine Technologies, a developer of innovative autonomous marine navigation solutions for the unmanned surface vessel (USV) market, has partnered...

Apr 21, 2017
X-ES Launches Enterprise Linux Board Support Package

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has announced that it is now offering X-ES Enterprise Linux (XEL) – a Board Support Package...

Apr 21, 2017
Navmar to Test Micro-Turboprop Engine on TigerShark UAV

Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) and UAV Turbines Inc. (UAVT) have announced plans for a joint flight demonstration of NASC’s...

Apr 20, 2017
VectorNav High Performance GPS/INS Selected for Precision Gimbal Geo-Lock

Octopus ISR Systems, a division of UAV Factory Ltd., has released a new feature for precision geo-pointing for its miniature...

Apr 20, 2017
LORD Sensing Announces New Industrial-Grade Inertial Sensors

LORD Sensing MicroStrain has announced the introduction of the 3DM-CV5 family of industrial-grade inertial sensors, consisting of the CV5-10 IMU,...

Apr 20, 2017
New Unmanned Undersea Robot Hunts Invasive Lionfish

Non-profit organization Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) has announced the development of the Guardian LF1, an unmanned undersea...

Apr 19, 2017
KDDI and Terra Drone Announce New 4G LTE Drone Control Network

Terra Drone and telecommunications operator KDDI have announced the completion of their new 4G LTE control system, which allows operators...

Apr 18, 2017
General Atomics Provides Lithium-Ion Battery for Department of Defense UUV

General Atomics has announced that its Electromagnetic Systems group (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract to provide its Lithium-ion Fault...

Apr 18, 2017
Leidos to Provide US Army with UAS Services and Field Support

Leidos has announced that it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Army to provide Tactical Unmanned Aircraft...

Apr 18, 2017
Northwest UAV NW-44 Engine Logs Over 1000 Combat Flight Hours

Northwest UAV has announced that its NW-44 Multi-Fuel Engine has reached the milestone of logging over 1000 combat flight hours....

Apr 18, 2017
SimActive’s Correlator3D Software Selected for Emergency UAS Response Services

SimActive, a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced that Trumbull Unmanned is using their Correlator3D software as part of their...

Apr 18, 2017
New Foam Buoyancy Solution Developed for SuBastian ROV

Trelleborg, a developer of polymer solutions, has announced that its applied technologies division has engineered and manufactured a custom syntactic...

Apr 18, 2017
Verizon Conducts Flight Tests of New Drone-Based 4G LTE Service

Verizon has announced that it has conducted the latest engineering flight tests to determine how large an area of wireless...

Apr 17, 2017
DJI Introduces “Phantom 4 Advanced” Aerial Imaging Drone

DJI has announced the latest addition to its Phantom family of drones, the “Phantom 4 Advanced“, which features a more powerful 1-inch,...

Apr 17, 2017
Simlat Delivers Advanced UAS Training & Simulation Classroom to Embry-Riddle

Simlat, a provider of training solutions for unmanned vehicle systems (UAS), has delivered an eight seat classroom for UAS training...

Apr 17, 2017
MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS Completes First Flight from Littoral Combat Ship

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-8C Fire Scout autonomous helicopter took to the air for the first time from a U.S. Navy...

Apr 17, 2017
New Multispectral Sensor Tested on Global Hawk UAS

UTC Aerospace Systems has announced that it has successfully completed the first flight test of its new MS-177 long-range, multi-spectral...

Apr 17, 2017
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