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.

NVIDIA Unveils Jetson TX2 AI Embedded Computing Platform

NVIDIA has announced the NVIDIA Jetson TX2, a credit card-sized platform that delivers AI computing for applications such as intelligent...

Mar 14, 2017
National Oceanography Centre AUV Prepares for First Antarctic Mission

A team of ocean scientists from the University of Southampton and British Antarctic Survey (BAS), alongside engineers from the National...

Mar 14, 2017
Draganfly UAVs to Feature SureFire LED Lights for Night Operations

Draganfly Innovations has announced that it has signed an agreement with SureFire to integrate and test LED technology as a...

Mar 13, 2017
Terra Drone Launches New Heavy-Lifting UAV

Terra Drone Corporation has announced the launch of the new “Terra Powerlifter” unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) series, continuing its focus...

Mar 13, 2017
7i Imaging Systems Introduces 4K Live Video Streaming From Drones

7i Imaging Systems, a specialist in digital image production from aerial platforms, has announced a 4K/1080p live streaming service from...

Mar 13, 2017
US Air Force Uses UAV for C17 Globemaster Post-Flight Inspection

The U.S. Air Force has announced that its 412th Test Wing’s Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force (CTF) has used a...

Mar 12, 2017
Land Rover Develops Search and Rescue Vehicle with Mounted Drone

Land Rover has announced the debut of ‘Project Hero’, a new Discovery vehicle with a tailor-made communications drone and other...

Mar 09, 2017
Thales and Unifly Announce ECOsystem UAS Traffic Management System

Thales has announced the launch of ECOsystem UTM, an advanced solution for Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management (UTM), built with...

Mar 09, 2017
CyPhy Works and Pilot Thomas Logistics to Provide Oil & Gas Drone Services

CyPhy Works and Pilot Thomas Logistics have announced that the two firms have partnered to provide Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) services...

Mar 09, 2017
Abaco Demonstrates Prototype of Mission-Ready Graphics System

Abaco Systems has announced that it has demonstrated an advanced prototype of a very small form factor, rugged, mission-ready system...

Mar 08, 2017
Connect Tech Announces New Computer Vision Carrier Boards for NVIDIA Jetson

Connect Tech has announced the release of three new carrier boards for the new NVIDIA Jetson TX2 and existing Jetson...

Mar 08, 2017
NuWaves Unveils 20 Watt RF Amplifier for Military Communications

NuWaves Engineering has announced the development of the company’s latest miniaturized C-band bidirectional amplifier (BDA), a new addition to their...

Mar 08, 2017
New Multispectral Sensor Released for Agriculture Drones

SLANTRANGE has announced the release of the company’s new 3p multispectral sensor system for agriculture drones. The 3p is built...

Mar 07, 2017
Hughes to Provide Satellite Communications for Type-Certifiable Predator B

Hughes Network Systems has announced that its Defense and Intelligence and Systems Division (DISD) has been awarded a contract by...

Mar 07, 2017
Leonardo Announces New Secure Air Traffic Management System for Drones

Leonardo has announced that the company is ready to deploy its automated system for unmanned aircraft air traffic management (ATM)....

Mar 07, 2017
Northrop Grumman Tests Multi-Spectral Sensor on RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS

Northrop Grumman has announced that it has begun flight testing of the MS-177 sensor payload with a successful inaugural flight...

Mar 06, 2017
Pix4D Creates Drone-based Software Solutions for Surveying, Agriculture & Construction

Pix4D, a pioneering developer of software tools that create professional-grade georeferenced maps and models from drone-captured imagery, has partnered with...

Mar 06, 2017
senseFly and MicaSense Develop New Agricultural Drone & Data Solution

senseFly has announced that it has signed a commercial agreement with agricultural data gathering, processing, and analytics provider MicaSense that...

Mar 04, 2017
VStar Systems and Martin UAV Successfully Test Signal Intelligence Sensor

VStar Systems has announced the successful flight test of its modular Signal Intelligence Sensor, MA-C/lite, aboard the Martin UAV V-Bat...

Mar 04, 2017
General Atomics Announces Team Reaper Australia

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced the official launch of its Team Reaper Australia solution to the Project Air...

Mar 03, 2017
Leonardo to Develop Phase 2 of UK MoD RWUAS Demonstrator Program

Leonardo has announced that the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Technology Office has placed a two...

Mar 02, 2017
Arctic Atmospheric Data Collection UAS to Undergo Flight Testing

The ArcticShark, a new unmanned aircraft system (UAS) designed to collect sophisticated atmospheric data in the Arctic, is to begin...

Mar 02, 2017
Atlas Elektronik UK Integrates Seebyte Software onto USV Mission System

SeeByte, a developer of smart software technology for unmanned systems, and ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK), a specialist in delivery of...

Feb 28, 2017
US Air Force to Retire MQ-1 Predator and Transition to MQ-9 Reaper

The U.S. Air Force has announced that it plans to retire the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft in early 2018...

Feb 28, 2017
DJI Launches M200 Drone Series with ADS-B Collision Avoidance Technology

DJI has unveiled the new Matrice 200 drone series (M200), which is purpose-built for professional users to perform aerial inspections...

Feb 28, 2017
Ukrspecsystems Unveils Compact 2-Axis Micro Gimbal for UAVs

Ukrspecsystems has introduced a new lightweight 2-axis gyro-stabilized micro gimbal for fixed-wing and multirotor UAV platforms. The USG-251 is suited...

Feb 28, 2017
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