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.

Industrial Skyworks Releases Remote Drone Inspection Software

Industrial Skyworks has officially launched “Blue VU”, the company’s new drone inspection software for accurate and efficient inspections of buildings,...

Apr 16, 2017
TeAx Technology Introduces Dual Zoom Thermal Camera for UAVs

TeAx Technology has unveiled the ThermalCapture Fusion Zoom, a lightweight dual camera with an RGB zoom factor designed for the...

Apr 16, 2017
Kratos Develops Unmanned Tank Target for U.S. Army

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has announced that its Micro Systems business unit, part of the Kratos Unmanned Systems Division...

Apr 14, 2017
FAA to Release UAS Facility Maps for Part 107 Applications

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it plans to release unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) facility maps that depict...

Apr 14, 2017
360 Designs Unveils New Live Streaming Virtual Reality Broadcast Drone

360 Designs has announced the release of Flying EYE, a broadcast quality, live streaming, virtual reality drone. Flying EYE has...

Apr 14, 2017
Advanced Solutions and 3DR to Offer Drone Data Solution to AEC Professionals

Advanced Solutions has announced that it has entered into partnership with 3DR, the developer of Site Scan, a drone data...

Apr 12, 2017
PrecisionHawk and Corning to Develop New Hyperspectral Imagery UAS Solution

PrecisionHawk has announced that it will collaborate with Corning Incorporated to sell the Corning microHSI 410-SHARK hyperspectral camera coupled with...

Apr 12, 2017
Diakont Provides Underwater Robotic Nuclear Decontamination Service

Diakont, a provider of refueling outage tooling and services to the nuclear industry, has announced that it has successfully provided...

Apr 11, 2017
SkyX Develops Long-Range Hybrid Drone for Oil and Gas Inspections

SkyX, a start-up based in Canada, has unveiled details of their new Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to service the oil and...

Apr 11, 2017
Lockheed Martin and U.S. Air Force Demonstrate Manned/Unmanned Teaming

Lockheed Martin has announced that its Skunk Works division, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), U.S. Air...

Apr 10, 2017
General Atomics Predator B UAS Demonstrates Threat Radar Detection

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA‑ASI) has announced the successful airborne demonstration of a Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) on a GA-ASI...

Apr 10, 2017
Whitepaper: Integrating Magnetometers into MEMS-Based Inertial Systems

Sparton Navigation and Exploration, a developer of advanced inertial sensor systems, has released a technical whitepaper that discusses techniques to...

Apr 10, 2017
VTOL Drone Autonomously Transports Lab Samples Between Hospitals

Swiss Post has announced that, in conjunction with the Ticino EOC hospital group and drone manufacturer Matternet, it has been...

Apr 09, 2017
SolAero Solar Cells Used on Naval Research Lab UAV

SolAero Technologies, a provider of high efficiency solar cells and panels for satellite and aerospace applications, has announced that it...

Apr 07, 2017
INS-Aided Subsea LiDAR Successfully Collects Mapping Data at Depth

3D at Depth, a provider of advanced subsea LiDAR systems and solutions, has announced the success of a recent trial...

Apr 06, 2017
Hirth Motors Develops New Gasoline Engine for V-BAT UAV

Hirth Motors has developed a new propulsion system for MartinUAV‘s V-BAT transitional vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system. Hirth’s new 15hp 4201...

Apr 05, 2017
SBG Systems Unveils Qinertia INS/GNSS Post-Processing Software

SBG Systems has announced that it has unveiled Qinertia, the company’s new in-house post-processing software, at the Ocean Business conference....

Apr 05, 2017
NuWaves Engineering Finishes R&D Phase of 4-Watt Linear RF Amplifier

NuWaves Engineering has announced that it has completed the Independent Research and Development (IRaD) phase for its miniaturized VHF/UHF RF...

Apr 05, 2017
microdrones Provides UAS Mapping Solutions to Martin Instrument

microdrones has announced that it has formed a partnership with Martin Instrument, a provider of equipment for surveying and construction...

Apr 05, 2017
Sharp Selects Rajant Kinetic Mesh Wireless Technology for INTELLOS UGV

Rajant has announced that Sharp Electronics Corporation (“SEC”) will use its Kinetic Mesh technology as the wireless communications infrastructure for...

Apr 05, 2017
Phase One and ATI Announce New Aerial Inspection Drone Solution

Phase One Industrial and Aerial Technology International (ATI) have announced that the two companies have developed a professional aerial inspection...

Apr 05, 2017
LightningStrike VTOL UAS Demonstrator Completes Subscale Flight Test Program

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that its unmanned XV-24A LightningStrike Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane subscale vehicle demonstrator (SVD)...

Apr 05, 2017
Sentera Upgrades Incident Light Sensor for NDVI Applications

Sentera has announced that it has launched updates to its Incident Light Sensor (ILS) for use on NDVI-Upgraded DJI Phantom...

Apr 05, 2017
Northrop Grumman Successfully Tests MQ-4C Triton UAS Mission Capability Upgrade

Northrop Grumman has announced that its MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS), built for the U.S. Navy, has completed formal...

Apr 05, 2017
Sparton AHRS Integrated onto Riptide Micro-UUV

Sparton Corporation has announced the integration of its Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) products onto Riptide Autonomous Solutions’ unmanned undersea...

Apr 04, 2017
Aerobits Wins Awards for Innovation

Aerobits, a developer of miniature ADS-B technology for small UAS, has received a number of awards recognising the innovation of...

Apr 04, 2017
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