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.

ROV Used For Nuclear Reactor Decontamination

Diakont, a provider of services and tooling to the nuclear industry, has announced that it has begun to perform underwater...

Oct 13, 2016
Sentient and Insitu to Showcase ViDAR Optical Radar for UAS

Sentient and Insitu have announced that the two companies will demonstrate the ViDAR wide area autonomous detection system on the...

Oct 13, 2016
Northrop Grumman Tests Optical Bar Camera on Global Hawk UAS

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it has successfully flown an Optical Bar Camera broad-area synoptic sensor on an RQ-4...

Oct 13, 2016
Delair-Tech Acquires Trimble’s Gatewing UAS Business

Trimble has confirmed that Delair-Tech has acquired its Belgium-based Gatewing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) engineering and manufacturing business. Headquartered in...

Oct 11, 2016
microdrones and Delair-Tech Form Strategic Alliances with Trimble

Following the sale of its Gatewing UAS business, Trimble has entered into strategic alliances with Delair-Tech and microdrones of Siegen,...

Oct 11, 2016
New Testing Software Simulates Autonomous Vessel Control

H-Scientific Ltd (HSL), a developer of ship simulation technologies, has announced the release of ShipSim 3 and AUVSim, simulation software...

Oct 07, 2016
senseFly Announces New eBee Plus Mapping Drone

senseFly, a producer of professional mapping drones, has released details of its next-generation fixed-wing UAS for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the eBee Plus,...

Oct 06, 2016
New SWaP-Optimized VME Power Supplies for Unmanned Systems

Aegis Power Systems, Inc. has released new SWaP-optimized VME650-series power supplies to replace previous models, giving VME bus application developers...

Oct 06, 2016
Spirent Develops GPS/GNSS Simulation and Test Solutions for Unmanned Systems

Spirent, a developer of simulation and test solutions for GPS/GNSS satellite-based navigation and positioning in unmanned systems, has partnered with...

Oct 06, 2016
X-ES Launches New Rugged Small Form Factor Embedded System

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) have released their newest Small Form Factor (SFF) rugged embedded system – the XPand6052. This small...

Oct 06, 2016
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Counter-UAS Technologies

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently took part in the annual U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Black Dart exercise for countering unmanned aerial...

Oct 06, 2016
Thales Tests Unmanned Systems During Royal Navy Exercise

Thales is playing a major role in a large Royal Navy demonstration this week, to determine the feasability of using unmanned...

Oct 05, 2016
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
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