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.

Advanced Navigation Introduces Rugged Interface & Logging Unit

Advanced Navigation has announced the release of their interface and logging unit. The interface and logging unit (ILU) is a...

May 14, 2015
Insitu Pacific to Demonstrate ICOMC2 Unmanned Vehicle Ground Control Station

Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of unmanned systems developer Insitu Inc., has announced that it will demonstrate the Insitu Common...

May 13, 2015
Textron Systems Launches Unmanned Systems Training Catalog

Textron Systems Support Solutions, a subsidiary of aerospace and defense firm Textron Inc., has announced the introduction of its new...

May 13, 2015
Drone Crates Introduces Rugged Travel Cases For Feiyu Tech Gimbals

Drone Crates, a manufacturer of premium carrying cases for drones and related equipment, has introduced a new lineup of hard...

May 12, 2015
Horizon Unveils Hydrogen-Powered Multirotor UAV

Horizon Unmanned Systems (HUS), a company that specializes in merging advanced energy systems with UAV platforms, has unveiled HYCOPTER, which...

May 12, 2015
AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2015 – the UST Round-Up

More than 8,000 attendees and over 600 exhibitors attended the annual AUVSI Unmanned Systems 15 expo last week, held in...

May 12, 2015
DARPA’s Low Cost Tech to Improve UAS Capabilities at Sea

Tern, a joint program between DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR), seeks to give forward-deployed small...

May 12, 2015
Delair-Tech UAVs to Provide Observation and Crisis Management for Natural Disasters

Delair-Tech, a leader in the French civilian drone industry, has won a tender to provide UAVs to the EU Commission’s...

May 11, 2015
Aitech Announces New A661 Rugged 48-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a manufacturer of embedded and mission-critical computing technologies, has announced the release of the rugged A661...

May 11, 2015
Gladiator Technologies Extends Range of High Performance Inertial MEMS Sensors for Unmanned Systems

The new Gladiator Technologies profile is now live on the Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”) website. The ‘Gold’ profile highlights the...

May 11, 2015
C-ASTRAL Unveils New Hand-Launch ATLAS sUAS

C-Astral, an aerospace enterprise and solution provider specialising in small fixed wing unmanned systems (sUAS), has unveiled the latest addition...

May 11, 2015
Aero Kinetics and FreeFlight Systems to Bring ADS-B Technology to Unmanned Industry

Aero Kinetics, an aerospace and defense firm, has announced that it is entering into a partnership with FreeFlight Systems, a...

May 08, 2015
Liquid Robotics Announces Partner Program for Unmanned Ocean Technology

Liquid Robotics, Inc., a manufacturer of unmanned ocean robots, has announced the Liquid Robotics Open Oceans Partner Program, a global...

May 08, 2015
BAE Systems Develops SIGINT Payload for Gray Eagle UAS

BAE Systems has announced that it has developed an intelligence-gathering sensor for the U.S. Army unmanned aircraft system (UAS) MQ-1C...

May 07, 2015
Gumstix Launches Integrated Micro-UAV Development Tools

Gumstix, Inc., a manufacturer of computers-on-module (COMs), has announced the latest update to its AeroCore series of micro-aerial vehicle (MAV)...

May 07, 2015
FAA Announces UAS Pathfinder Industry Initiative

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced a partnership with industry to explore the next steps...

May 07, 2015
FAA Unveils B4UFLY App for Safe and Legal UAS Operations

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has demonstrated a new smartphone application called “B4UFLY,” designed to help...

May 07, 2015
FLIR Systems Releases FLIR Vue™ Thermal Cameras for sUAS

FLIR Systems, Inc. has released its new FLIR Vue – a compact thermal camera specifically designed for use on commercial...

May 06, 2015
Septentrio Launches AsteRx-m UAS GNSS Receiver

Septentrio has announced the launch of AsteRx-m UAS, a RTK –accurate GNSS receiver solution specially designed for the drone market....

May 06, 2015
PrecisionHawk Signs UAV Research Agreement with FAA

PrecisionHawk, an unmanned aerial systems and remote sensing company, has announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and...

May 06, 2015
MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS Completes Developmental Flight Tests

An MQ-8C Fire Scout completed its final developmental test flight on April 29 from Naval Base Ventura County at Point...

May 06, 2015
senseFly Launches eXom Intelligent Mapping and Inspection Drone

senseFly, a manufacturer of autonomous drones for civilian applications, has announced the launch of the eXom, a quadcopter unmanned aerial...

May 06, 2015
NWUAV’s New NW-44 UAV Engine Completes First Flight Tests

NWUAV, leading supplier of small unmanned propulsion systems, has announced that the company’s innovative NW-44 UAV engine has successfully completed...

May 06, 2015
Aeryon Labs and Dejero Partner, Allowing Remote Access to Live sUAS Video

Aeryon Labs Inc., the premier manufacturer of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) and Dejero, the leader in the remote acquisition,...

May 06, 2015
Kairos Autonomi Unveils New Robotic Applique Kit For Heavy Equipment

Kairos Autonomi, the worldwide leader in robotic applique kits, has introduced its latest technology, the Pronto4 Heavy. Designed specifically for...

May 06, 2015
Exelis to Research Safe Integration of UAS into National Airspace

Exelis, a global aerospace and defense company, has announced that it has signed agreements with four Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-designated...

May 06, 2015
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