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.

New Video Shows Aerobot Cinestar VTOL UAV in Action

Aerobot has released a new video showing the Cinestar multi-rotor unmanned helicopter in action. According to the Aerobot website, the...

Jun 06, 2012
Supersonic Mini-drone Aims for Jet Speed Record

    Researchers at the University of Colorado are building the smallest supersonic jet engine ever made. Weighing just 22...

Jun 05, 2012
Boeing Demonstrates SATCOM on the Move Between Australia and US

Boeing has successfully demonstrated its SATCOM on the Move (SOTM) product on a live Ka-band satellite network. The demonstration in...

Jun 05, 2012
Military Video Surveillance Market Worth US$8 Billion in 2012

The global military video surveillance systems market will be worth US$8.81 billion this year, as the development of advanced motion-imagery...

Jun 05, 2012
Boeing Phantom Eye UAS Completes First Autonomous Flight

Boeing’s Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system (UAS) completed its first autonomous flight June 1 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center...

Jun 04, 2012
iRobot Receives $12.7 Million Order for Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles

iRobot Corp., a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, has received a $12.7 million order from the U.S. Army Contracting...

Jun 04, 2012
Tritech to Supply Sonar Systems for US Naval AUV Order

Tritech has been awarded a contract to supply German-based Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a leading systems supplier for naval electronics, with...

Jun 04, 2012
Lynntech to Develop Prototype Propulsion and Power System for Future Long-endurance AUVs

ARLINGTON, Va., 30 May 2012. Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) experts at the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington,...

Jun 04, 2012
Norwegian University of Technology and Science purchases REMUS 100 AUV

Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles – AUVs, announces that the...

Jun 04, 2012
U.S Army Orders AeroVironment RQ-11B Raven Small UAS and New Miniature Gimbaled Payloads

AeroVironment, Inc. has received a $15,813,406 firm fixed-price authorization to perform on May 22, 2012 from the United States Army...

Jun 04, 2012
NASA Global Hawk UAV to be used for Hurricane Investigations

NASA will be sending unmanned aircrafts dubbed “severe storm sentinels” above stormy skies, beginning this summer and over the next...

Jun 04, 2012
Surf Life Savers to Monitor sharks & Swimmers with Small UAVs

Technology typically used for military operations could soon be monitoring bathers and sharks off Australian beaches. The project will test...

Jun 04, 2012
BlueView Technologies to be Acquired by Teledyne Technologies

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire BlueView...

Jun 02, 2012
U.S. Army Places $16m Initial Order for AeroVironment UAS’s

AeroVironment Inc. has received a $15.8 million initial order from the United States Army out of a total projected contract...

Jun 01, 2012
NASA to Send UAVs into Stormy Skies

Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed “severe storm sentinels” above...

Jun 01, 2012
NexTech Wins Contract for Compact Energy System for UUV’s

NexTech Materials, Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for...

Jun 01, 2012
Sky-Futures Adds Gatewing X-100 UAV to Managed Service Fleet

Sky-Futures have acquired the Gatewing X-100 as the new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to their managed service fleet, and will...

Jun 01, 2012
Phoenix Purchases Bluefin-21 AUV to Expand Service Offering

Bluefin Robotics, the leading provider of free-flooded, modular Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related technologies announced today that the company...

Jun 01, 2012
JAXA Aims to Set Unmanned Balloon Altitude Record

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will attempt to send an unmanned scientific balloon to a world-record-breaking altitude of around 55...

Jun 01, 2012
World Surveillance Group Successfully Completes Payload Testing of Argus One UAV

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, announced today that the Company...

May 31, 2012
Hood Technology UAV Imaging Systems to be Used by Iraqi Navy

The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the...

May 31, 2012
Raytheon Unveils Prototype ISR System to Canadian Army

Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, recently unveiled its Light Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance Surveillance System...

May 31, 2012
Northrop Grumman & L-3 MAS Join Forces on Unmanned System for Canadian Security

Northrop Grumman Corporation and L-3 MAS announced plans today to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global...

May 31, 2012
New Piezoelectric Accelerometer Technologies for UAV Ground Vibration Testing

Kistler has announced availability of its piezoelectric accelerometer technologies for cost-effective, high-accuracy support of aircraft, helicopter, rotorcraft, missile, satellite and...

May 29, 2012
Cargo Hookup Completed with K-MAX Unmanned Cargo Helicopter

Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2, the “Night Owls,” made history earlier this week when they completed the first “hot...

May 29, 2012
NexTech Awarded ONR Contract to Develop UUV Energy System

NexTech Materials, Ltd. has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for a Future Naval Capability (FNC) project...

May 29, 2012
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