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.

Video: Unmanned Aerial Inspection of Gas Flare Stacks

Aerial inspection and imagery specialists, AirRotorMedia, has released a video that demonstrates their capability for unmanned visual inspection of flare...

Dec 15, 2012
Video: BP Alaska Trials Aeryon Scout UAV for Visual Inspection of Pipelines

In Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, BP conducted pilot testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle  technology to enhance pipeline inspection and safety. Equipped...

Dec 14, 2012
QinetiQ Hosts UAV Autonomy Research Programme Trial

QinetiQ has hosted key industry partners and UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) representatives at its Farnborough Headquarters as part of...

Dec 14, 2012
Boeing Demos Unmanned Little Bird Aircraft for Republic of Korea Army

Boeing has demonstrated affordable unmanned aircraft technology that could be integrated onto Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) MD 500 helicopters...

Dec 13, 2012
Aerosonde UAS Completes First ISR Flight in Afghanistan

Marines in Afghanistan witnessed AAI Corp.’s Aerosonde Unmanned Air System (UAS) first flight Dec. 2. under NAVAIR’s Intelligence, Surveillance and...

Dec 13, 2012
Bodkin Design to Develop Switchable Polarimetric Camera for UAS

Bodkin Design & Engineering, LLC (BD&E) has been awarded a Phase I SBIR contract from the U.S. Air Force to...

Dec 12, 2012
Boeing’s Unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Returns to Orbit

Boeing has successfully returned an unmanned U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to orbit, continuing to demonstrate how the...

Dec 12, 2012
X-37B Unmanned Orbit Vehicle Uses UTC Aerospace Systems’ Space Flight Actuation System

UTC Aerospace Systems developed and manufactured the space flight actuation system and remote interface unit supporting the recent successful flight...

Dec 12, 2012
TASL Acquires Majority Stake In Aurora Integrated Systems

Tata Advanced Systems Limited has acquired majority stake in Aurora Integrated Systems Limited. PXV Law Partners advised AIS while AZB...

Dec 11, 2012
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Powers X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle back into Orbit

The U.S. military’s unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle returned to orbit today on its third mission – thanks to the...

Dec 11, 2012
Royal Navy to Trial Aircraft Carrier-Launched Unmanned Aircraft

The Royal Navy is to start trialling unmanned drones launched from aircraft carriers, Defence Minister Philip Dunne says. Drones are...

Dec 11, 2012
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Completes First Taxi On Truman Carrier

Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and personnel from the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System...

Dec 11, 2012
DARPA Demonstrates Precise Autonomous Payload Placement with UAV

When a person reaches out to place an object in just the right place, their mind makes a series of...

Dec 10, 2012
Advanced Unmanned Completes First Stage of UAV Development

Aerial imagery company Advanced Unmanned approved the specifications for its customized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet, completing the design phase...

Dec 10, 2012
Scan Eagle UAV Completes Flight-Check on LPD Class Ship

A Scan Eagle Unmanned Air Vehicle was launched from the USS San Antonio (LPD 17), an amphibious transport dock class...

Dec 10, 2012
EFF Releases Map of Unmanned Drones in USA

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that...

Dec 07, 2012
Future of Unmanned Aerospace Systems Touted at Jackson County Economic Development Foundation Dinner

Existing aerospace enterprises and the hope of more to come served as the backdrop Thursday night for the Jackson County...

Dec 07, 2012
NASA to Study Pollutants in the Stratosphere with Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft

NASA is inviting social media followers for a behind-the-scenes look at several airborne Earth science missions during an event Jan....

Dec 07, 2012
Aurora Delivers World’s First Optionally-Piloted Aircraft to Swiss DoD

Aurora Flight Sciences has delivered the world’s first production Optionally-Piloted Aircraft (OPA) system to Switzerland’s Department of Defence. The Centaur...

Dec 06, 2012
Kongsberg Maritime Delivers AUV Package to DOF Subsea

Kongsberg Maritime has delivered a cutting-edge AUV package featuring an advanced HUGIN 1000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and sophisticated multibeam...

Dec 06, 2012
JLENS Unmanned Aerostat Simultaneously Tracked Swarming Targets in Recent Test

Swarming boats operating in highly-trafficked strategic waterways will soon be easier to detect, target and engage. During a recent test,...

Dec 06, 2012
Wave Glider Autonomous Marine Robot Completes Record-Breaking Journey Across the Pacific

U.S. based Liquid Robotics®, an ocean data service provider and developer of the Wave Glider®, the first wave powered autonomous...

Dec 06, 2012
Xsens Inertial Navigation System Used on Area-I Unmanned Aircraft

Area-I has released flight test footage of the PTERA (Prototype Technology Evaluation Research Aircraft), which integrates the XSens MTi-G-700 GPS/INS Inertial Navigation...

Dec 05, 2012
CyPhy Works Unveils Two New Long Endurance UAVs

CyPhy Works, an innovative new robotics company, today unveiled two revolutionary small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs): EASE and PARC. The...

Dec 05, 2012
Unmanned Aircraft Likely to take over Nimrod Spy Duties

The military is likely to use unmanned drones to undertake reconnaissance patrols around the coast of the UK and for...

Dec 05, 2012
Carbon by Design increases UAV Manufacturing Equipment

Carbon by Design has acquired its fifth Haas CNC in less than three years to complete the planned capacity build-out...

Dec 05, 2012
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