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.

TAG Issued U.S. Patent Award for Field-Upgradable CPU Technology

Technology Advancement Group, Inc. (TAG®) has been issued a US patent (8,537,540) for a Field Serviceable CPU Module. TAG has...

Oct 01, 2013
SeeByte Presented with VIPS Innovation Award

SeeByte, creators of smart software for unmanned maritime systems, was awarded the Marcus Kolb prize for Innovation at last week’s...

Oct 01, 2013
AUVSI 2014 Call for Technical Papers is Now Open

AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2014, being held 12-15 May in Orlando, Fla., will highlight the most important technological advancements, cutting edge...

Oct 01, 2013
CUVR Announces the Formation of The Rising Talent Expo

The Cluster for Unmanned Vehicles and Robotics (CUVR, Inc.) has announced the launch of the Rising Talent Expo Program in...

Sep 30, 2013
DUALOBE Connectors Deliver Superior Performance in Harsh, High-Temp Mil/Aero Environments

TE Connectivity’s (TE) DUALOBE connectors are designed to help withstand extreme temperatures in harsh environments within the military and commercial...

Sep 30, 2013
Omnetics Unveils Complete Range of Surface-Mount Nano-Connectors for Rugged PCBs

Omnetics Connector Corporation has completed a full line of Nano-D shaped connectors designed for automatic and hand assembly for densely...

Sep 27, 2013
Video: Astrium’s Zephyr Solar Powered High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite Completes Test Flight

Astrium has successfully completed the first flight of its long endurance Zephyr solar powered High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) since it acquired...

Sep 27, 2013
U.S. Marines Put Stingray Micro Unmanned Ground Vehicle to the Test

Marines with the Special Operations Training Group tested a prototype advanced robotics system known as the Stingray Micro Unmanned Ground...

Sep 27, 2013
QinetiQ North America to Supply TALON Robots to Iraq

QinetiQ North America (QNA) today announced it is being awarded a $20 million, firm-fixed-price contract for its TALON® IV military...

Sep 27, 2013
Schiebel CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS Completes Inspection Demonstrations Using FLIR Corona 350 Sensor

Schiebel, FLIR and Transpower are proud to announce the successful demonstration of the Schiebel CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS)...

Sep 26, 2013
UAV Solutions, Inc. to Provide Engineering Support Services to JHU for Unmanned Vehicle Development

UAV Solutions, Inc. has announced the company received a Master Service Agreement from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...

Sep 26, 2013
Lighter Than Air Systems’ Aerostats to Support U.S. Army Overseas Operations

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air aerostats and unmanned aerial systems, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lighter...

Sep 26, 2013
Raytheon’s AI3 Intercepts & Destroys UAS Target

In a first-of-its-kind test for Raytheon Company’s Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative system, AI3 destroyed an unmanned aerial system (UAS) in...

Sep 26, 2013
Team Registration Open for NASA-DPI UAS Airspace Operations Challenge

NASA and Development Projects Inc. (DPI) of Dayton, Ohio, have opened registration for the 2014 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Airspace...

Sep 25, 2013
Velodyne Launch Visualization and Recording Software for LiDAR Sensors

Velodyne Acoustics Inc.’s LiDAR division has announced the release of VeloView, a new visualization and recording software for Velodyne’s real-time,...

Sep 24, 2013
Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout Completes Initial Ground Testing

Northrop Grumman Corporation turned on the power to the U.S. Navy’s first MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter and rotated the...

Sep 24, 2013
NuWaves expands into the UK and Ireland with the signing of Castle Microwave

NuWaves Engineering, an international Radio Frequency (RF) and Embedded Systems solutions provider, has added Castle Microwave as an authorized representative...

Sep 24, 2013
Boeing QF-16 Aerial Target Completes First Pilotless Flight

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have completed the first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight, demonstrating the next...

Sep 23, 2013
TCOM Launch Tactical Aerostat for Military Forces and First Responders

TCOM has announced the launch of its newest aerostat platform, the 12M™ Tactical Aerostat. The system is designed specifically to...

Sep 23, 2013
Prodrive Appoints Aerospace Specialist to Grow Aviation Composites Business

Dominic Cartwright has joined UK-based Prodrive Composites as managing director. Cartwright, who was previously managing director at Banbury-based CTG, part of...

Sep 21, 2013
DARPA Launches Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) Program to Develop Reusable Unmanned Space Vehicle

New program seeks to lower satellite launch costs by developing a reusable hypersonic unmanned vehicle with costs, operation and reliability...

Sep 20, 2013
Northrop Grumman Conduct Tests of Maritime Surveillance Sensor For Triton UAS

Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed more than 25 flight tests of the U.S. Navy Triton unmanned aircraft system’s (UAS) primary...

Sep 20, 2013
X-47B UCAS-D Completes 100th Flight

The X-47B (AV-2) conducted the 100th flight for the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) program on Sept. 18....

Sep 20, 2013
British Army Hermes 450 UAS Exceed 70,000 Flight Hours in Afghanistan

The British Army’s Hermes 450 (H-450) unmanned air systems have completed over 70,000 hours of surveillance support in Afghanistan. This...

Sep 20, 2013
SBG Systems Launches Ekinox Land Solution For Accurate Vehicle Positioning

SBG Systems releases Ekinox Land Solution, an all-in-one solution combining the cost-effective Inertial Navigation System with an odometer, and a...

Sep 19, 2013
Video: Boeing Develop Phantom Swift UAS Prototype for DARPA’s VTOL X-Plane Competition

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that can fly...

Sep 19, 2013
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