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.

Milrem Unveils New Modular Hybrid Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Milrem, a defence solutions provider specialising in military engineering, has unveiled its new modular hybrid unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), THeMIS...

Feb 16, 2016
Cobham Announces New Lightweight Tactical UAV Satcom Solution

Cobham SATCOM, a provider of satellite and radio communication solutions, has announced that it has developed what the company claims...

Feb 16, 2016
DARPA Confirms First FLA Flight Tests are a Success

The initial phase of data collection for DARPA’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program has been deemed an encouraging success. During...

Feb 16, 2016
Airbus Group Innovations to Develop Humanoid Robots

Airbus Group Innovations (AGI), the global research and technology network of aeronautics and space technology developer Airbus Group, has announced...

Feb 15, 2016
Moog and Italian Institute of Technology to Develop Robot Actuation and Control Technologies

Moog Inc. has signed an agreement with IIT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) for the creation of...

Feb 15, 2016
MicaSense Announces New Multispectral Camera and Data Solution for Agricultural Drones

MicaSense, a provider of integrated data solutions, has announced the new Parrot Sequoia sensor, thus expanding on its line of...

Feb 12, 2016
Elbit Systems Announces Skylark 3 Mini-UAS

Elbit Systems, a defense technology firm, has announced the Skylark 3, a new autonomous mini-Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), best suited...

Feb 12, 2016
WPI Robotics Team to Train Autonomous Firefighting Robot

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that one of its professors has received nearly $600,000 from the Office of Naval...

Feb 12, 2016
DroneDeploy Launches iOS Flight App for Aerial Data Capture

DroneDeploy, a developer of cloud software for commercial drones, has announced the launch of its free iOS flight app to...

Feb 11, 2016
Gladiator Technologies Reaches ‘LandMark’ IMU Delivery Milestone for CAMCOPTER UAS

Gladiator Technologies has achieved the manufacturing and delivery milestone of more than 225 LandMark™ IMU’s produced in support of the...

Feb 11, 2016
SEACON Releases Enhanced Ruffnek (A259) MUX Series Connector

SEACON, a manufacturer ofunderwater electrical and fiber optic connectors, has introduced the newly designed A259 Ruffnek MUX Series as an...

Feb 11, 2016
Cella Energy Solid Hydrogen Fuelled UAV Completes First Flight

Cella Energy, a developer of hydrogen storage technologies, has announced that its new hydrogen-fuelled battery replacement system has successfully powered...

Feb 11, 2016
Bristow Group Invests in Sky-Futures Drone Inspection Services

Bristow Group Inc., a provider of offshore helicopter services, and Sky-Futures, a provider of drone inspection services for the oil...

Feb 10, 2016
Kraken Sonar Receives Funding from Canada to Develop KATFISH Prototype Platform

Kraken Sonar Inc., a developer of Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) technology, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems...

Feb 10, 2016
Northrop Grumman Battlefield Airborne Communications Node Completes 100,000 Flight Hours

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that its Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), developed for the U.S. Air Force, has achieved...

Feb 09, 2016
Velodyne LiDAR Sensors to be Used in US Army Autonomous Shuttles

Velodyne LiDAR has announced that military contractor Robotic Research, LLC has successfully deployed Velodyne’s VLP-16 real-time 3D LiDAR sensor on...

Feb 09, 2016
Major Government Contractor Selects Sparton’s AHRS-8 System

Sparton Corporation has been selected by another major government contractor to be the inertial system supplier for their navigation system. During...

Feb 09, 2016
Detect and Avoid System Demonstrated on CAMCOPTER UAS

Schiebel, the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), the Netherlands Coastguard and the Royal Netherlands Air Force successfully conducted a series of...

Feb 09, 2016
Drone Aviation to Provide Aerostat to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that it has received a follow-on...

Feb 08, 2016
Elbit Systems Introduces Seagull Unmanned Surface Vehicle Maritime Warfare System

Elbit Systems, a defense technology firm, has announced the launch of Seagull, the company’s newest offering in the unmanned platform...

Feb 08, 2016
NASA sends Global Hawk UAS to study El Nino weather patterns

The NASA Global Hawk UAS will conduct several missions to collect detailed data over the Pacific Ocean from complex El...

Feb 08, 2016
Fruity Chutes Launches Parachute Descent Rate Calculator

Fruity Chutes, leading manufacturer of high quality UAV parachute recovery systems, has released a tool that plots the descent rate...

Feb 05, 2016
Nokia to Showcase LTE Technology for Drone Operation in Smart Cities

Nokia has announced that it will be showcasing its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic Management (UTM) concept for the safe operation...

Feb 04, 2016
EagleView Develops Outdoor Drone Research Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology

EagleView Technology Corporation, a provider of aerial imagery technology, data analytics and GIS solutions, has announced that its wholly owned...

Feb 04, 2016
Ulti-Mate Connector Receives AS9100 Certification

Ulti-Mate Connector Inc. has passed the certification audit for AS9100 Revision C Quality Management System for aviation, space and defense...

Feb 04, 2016
Impact Subsea Launches New ISD4000 Depth & Temperature Sensor

Impact Subsea, a developer of underwater sensing solutions, has announced the launch of the ISD4000 – the company’s new survey...

Feb 03, 2016
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