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.

Logos Technologies Unveils New Lightweight Kestrel WAMI Sensor

Logos Technologies has unveiled its new Kestrel KS-200 wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor at the Association of the United States...

Oct 05, 2016
NuWaves Engineering Announces Upgraded Miniature RF Power Amplifier

NuWaves Engineering, a provider of radio frequency (RF) and microwave solutions, has announced the release of an upgraded miniature RF...

Oct 04, 2016
QinetiQ North America and Milrem Introduce Titan UGV

QinetiQ North America and Milrem have announced the introduction of Titan, an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that combines Milrem’s THeMIS...

Oct 04, 2016
The Driverless Car Race: Road Ahead for UK Industry

From self-parking cars, gesture-controlled infotainment systems to head-up displays that augment reality, car technology is advancing so quickly that it’s...

Oct 04, 2016
United States Naval Observatory Selects NovAtel GPS Anti-Jam Technology

NovAtel Inc., a provider of OEM high precision positioning technology, has announced that the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) has...

Oct 04, 2016
Northrop Grumman to Provide Additional MQ-8C Fire Scouts for US Navy

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it is to build 10 additional MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters for the U.S....

Oct 04, 2016
US Coast Guard Tests UAS-Mounted ViDAR For Search Missions

Sentient, a developer of computer vision solutions, has announced the successful completion of its live demonstration of ViDAR with the...

Oct 03, 2016
Aerialtronics, Neurala and NVIDIA Demonstrate AI-Powered Drone Inspection

Aerialtronics, in conjunction with Neurala, a pioneer in deep learning software, and NVIDIA, has demonstrated automated inspections by an intelligent...

Oct 03, 2016
Textron Systems Introduces Synturian™ Family of Ground Control Stations

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has launched the Synturian™ family of products – the latest additions to its proven range of...

Oct 03, 2016
Latitude Engineering HQ-60 UAV Sets New Flight Record

Latitude Engineering has announced that, in conjunction with a team coordinated by L-3 Unmanned Systems, it has surpassed the world...

Sep 30, 2016
Small UAV Successfully Launched From Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Lockheed Martin has announced that it has successfully launched Vector Hawk, a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), on command from...

Sep 30, 2016
Comparing Photogrammetry and LiDAR for Aerial Mapping via Drone

Unmanned Systems Source has released an article designed to help surveyors decide when to use photogrammetry or LiDAR (Light Detection...

Sep 29, 2016
New 3D Printing Composite Material Developed for Unmanned Systems

CRP Technology, a developer of additive manufacturing technologies, has announced the launch of Windform FX Black, a new material within...

Sep 29, 2016
DJI Unveils Mavic Pro Portable Folding Drone

DJI has announced the introduction of Mavic Pro – a portable multirotor drone featuring DJI’s most innovative flight technology in...

Sep 28, 2016
ASV Global and UK MoD Sign Licence Agreement for USV Software

ASV Global has announced that it has signed a licence agreement with the UK Ministry of Defence allowing for the...

Sep 28, 2016
US Navy Uses MQ-8B Fire Scout as Laser Designator Platform

The U.S. Navy has announced that its Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 has used an MQ-8B unmanned air system...

Sep 28, 2016
ADLINK Launches New Processor Blade with Intel Xeon CPU and AMD Radeon GPU

ADLINK Technology, Inc., a provider of embedded technologies, has announced the introduction of its new cPCI-6940 processor blade featuring the...

Sep 28, 2016
LynxOS Software Used in New Real-Time Flight Communications System

Lynx Software Technologies has confirmed that its LynxOS-178 RTOS provides the platform for a ground breaking real-time flight information reporting...

Sep 28, 2016
Next-Generation Robotics & Automation: Automotive Manufacturing Europe 2016

Automotive manufacturers across Europe understand that the next-generation of robotics and automation technologies is a revolutionary opportunity to upgrade automotive...

Sep 28, 2016
GA-ASI Demonstrates Long-Range UAS Communications Data Link

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that its Network Centric Communications Pod (NCCP) successfully demonstrated the ability to provide a...

Sep 28, 2016
MQ-4C Triton UAS Obtains Milestone C Production Approval

Northrop Grumman has announced that, following a successful Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) led review, the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned...

Sep 27, 2016
US Navy Tests Counter-UAS Capabilities Aboard Warships

The U.S. Navy has announced that it has tested counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities aboard guided-missile destroyers USS Jason Dunham...

Sep 26, 2016
Sparton NavEx Launches Next Generation Micro AHRS

Sparton Navigation and Exploration, a business unit of Sparton Corporation, has released the AHRS-M2 – a next generation Attitude Heading Reference System...

Sep 26, 2016
Lumenera’s Lt965R Camera Selected for Vegetation-Monitoring UAV

Lumenera, a provider of high-performance cameras and imaging systems used in UAVs, has released details of how their industrial USB...

Sep 26, 2016
Bell Helicopter Announces New Shipborne Tiltrotor UAS Platform

Bell Helicopter has announced its new V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) that will combine the vertical lift...

Sep 26, 2016
Schiebel and Diehl Defence Renew Cooperation Agreement

Schiebel, manufacturer of the CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned aircraft system (UAS), and Diehl Defence have announced that the two companies have...

Sep 26, 2016
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