UAV / Drone News

The latest UAS / UAV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Articles on commercial UAV, tactical drones and unmanned aerial systems, product launches and technological advances in UAV design and manufacture

Microdrones Continues Global Growth into Australia

Microdrones has announced that it has expanded its global footprint, with dedicated resources to support Australia, New Zealand and Papua...

Sep 10, 2018
Bell to Aid NASA National Airspace UAS Demo

Bell Helicopter has announced a cooperative agreement with NASA for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flight demonstration in the National...

Sep 07, 2018
Parrot Announces New Mapping and 4K Video Drone Solutions

Parrot has announced the release of two new drone platforms, the senseFly eBee X and the Parrot ANAFI Work. “The...

Sep 06, 2018
Airflite to Service UMS SKELDAR UAVs in Australasia

UMS SKELDAR, a developer of rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions and avionics software, has announced that it has agreed...

Sep 05, 2018
Taiwan to Develop Coastal Patrol Drone Fleet

The government of Taiwan has announced that its new defense budget draft includes plans to deploy combat-ready drones to protect...

Sep 04, 2018
Sentient Vision to Provide ISR Capability for Australian Defence Force UAS

Sentient Vision Systems has announced that it has joined Team Reaper Australia, a group headed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems,...

Sep 04, 2018
Schiebel Establishes Pacific Region UAS Services Hub

Schiebel, a developer of Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Air Systems (UAS), has announced that it has founded Schiebel...

Sep 03, 2018
Wireless Power System Introduced for DJI Matrice 200 Drones

WiBotic, a developer of wireless charging and power optimization solutions for the robotics industry, has announced a new wireless power...

Aug 31, 2018
Boeing to Build U.S. Navy MQ-25 Refuelling UAS

Boeing has announced that it has been awarded an $805 million contract to build the U.S. Navy’s first operational carrier-based...

Aug 31, 2018
FAA Begins UAS Integration Pilot Program

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration Pilot Program has begun with successful...

Aug 31, 2018
UniFly to Provide UTM Systems to NUAIR Alliance

Unifly has announced that it has formed a partnership with the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR Alliance) and...

Aug 30, 2018
AeroVironment Provides UAS to Robotics Research Center

AeroVironment has announced that its MacCready Works lab has donated automated Quantix hybrid drones, spare parts and AeroVironment’s Decision Support...

Aug 30, 2018
New UAS Detect & Avoid and Electronic ID Solutions to be Developed

FLARM Technology and uAvionix have announced that the two companies have formed a partnership to collaborate on Electronic Conspicuity (EC)...

Aug 29, 2018
Fully Solar-Powered Quadcopter Drone Takes Flight

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced that a team from its NUS Faculty of Engineering has developed a...

Aug 29, 2018
Faradair Unveils Unmanned Bioelectric Hybrid Firefighting Aircraft

Faradair Aerospace has announced that it has developed a drone variant of its turboprop-powered BEHA (Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft) M1,...

Aug 29, 2018
Epson Launches New Augmented Reality App For DJI Drone Pilots

Epson has announced the launch of the Epson Drone Soar app, the first full-featured AR app for DJI drone pilots...

Aug 29, 2018
Aerobits Unveils Miniature ADS-B Detect-and-Avoid Solution for UAVs

Aerobits, a developer of miniature avionics technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced the introduction of the TIM-SC1, a...

Aug 26, 2018
DJI Introduces New Intelligent Camera Drones

DJI has announced the introduction of two additions to its Mavic series: Mavic 2 Pro, the world’s first drone with...

Aug 26, 2018
VectorNav GPS/INS Selected for Precision UAV Imaging Payload

VectorNav has confirmed that its VN-200 GPS-aided inertial navigation system (INS) has been integrated into Overwatch Imaging’s TK-series precision imaging...

Aug 24, 2018
Echodyne UAV Radar Certified by FCC

Echodyne, a manufacturer of high-performance radars for guiding autonomous vehicles, has announced that it has received FCC certification for its...

Aug 24, 2018
Tersus GNSS Unveils UAV PPK Solution

Tersus GNSS has announced the introduction of the company’s new solution for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) PPK (Post Processed Kinematic)...

Aug 24, 2018
BVLOS Commercial UAS Flights Begin at Grand Sky

Grand Sky, a fully operational commercial unmanned aerial systems (UAS)-focused research and development park, has announced that beyond visual line...

Aug 22, 2018
DroneDeploy Releases Machine Learning-Driven Photogrammetry Software

DroneDeploy, a drone software platform with the largest drone data repository in the world, has announced the release of Map...

Aug 22, 2018
ScanEagle UAS Provides Data for Wildfire Suppression

Insitu has announced that it has been helping firefighters on wildfires in Oregon, providing information for fire suppression activities via...

Aug 21, 2018
BVLOS Experimentation Corridor to be Created in UK

Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd and Cranfield University have announced that they intend to create a new test corridor to...

Aug 21, 2018
Intel Demonstrates Remote Drone Identification Solution

Intel has announced that it has performed the first public demonstration of Open Drone ID, an open standard that offers...

Aug 20, 2018
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