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

MQ-9B SkyGuardian UAS Completes FAA-Approved Flight

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced that it has flown an MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) from Laguna...

Aug 20, 2017
Avion Unmanned Delivers UAS Training for Utilities Provider

Avion Unmanned, a provider of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) training solutions, has provided formal training to Huntsville Utilities to...

Aug 18, 2017
New Industrial Electric Drone to Carry 100kg Payloads

A group of entrepreneurial engineers based in the UK has announced that it will build a mid-mass logistics drone for...

Aug 17, 2017
Mobilicom Releases Advanced Data Link for DIY Drones

Mobilicom has announced the release of the SkyHopper ONE UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) data link, an advanced UAV communication system...

Aug 17, 2017
Volaero to Integrate Geodetics LiDAR into UAS

Volaero Drones has announced that it has partnered with Geodetics to integrate, deploy, and resell Geodetics’ advanced LiDAR and RGB...

Aug 16, 2017
DJI Develops Private Flight Mode for Drone Apps

DJI has confirmed that it is developing a new local data mode that stops internet traffic to and from its...

Aug 16, 2017
New Hybrid VTOL UAV Boasts Two Hour Flight Time

FlightWave Aerospace Systems, Inc., a California-based startup, has revealed the FlightWave Edge™ Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). The FlightWave Edge™ UAS...

Aug 15, 2017
Kratos’ Mako Tactical UAS Completes Flight Test Series

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has recently completed a flight test series evaluating the next evolution of the UTAP-22...

Aug 15, 2017
New Fixed-Wing VTOL UAV Completes Flight Tests

ULC Robotics, Inc. has successfully flight tested its newly developed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle. As...

Aug 15, 2017
Award-Winning Robotics Team Uses KDE Direct Motors

KDE Direct has announced that it has sponsored an award-winning team at the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC), an annual...

Aug 15, 2017
KDE Direct Provides Components for Commercial and Industrial Drones

KDE Direct, a leading designer and manufacturer of high quality components for single- and multi-rotor unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has...

Aug 14, 2017
New UAS Introduced for Wildlife Management

Saxon Remote Systems, a developer of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has announced the release of its newest line of...

Aug 14, 2017
New Drone-Based Mapping Program Designed for Public Safety Applications

CompassDrone, a developer of unmanned aerial solutions for high-quality data collection, has announced a new comprehensive drone-based mapping program designed...

Aug 14, 2017
Altus Intelligence Unveils Electric VTOL UAS

Altus Intelligence has unveiled an electric helicopter drone platform ahead of its official release at Interdrone in Las Vegas this...

Aug 11, 2017
VStar Systems Adds Remote Operations Capability to SIGINT Sensor

VStar Systems has announced that it has added remote operations to its MA-C SIGINT Sensor, foregoing the need for operators...

Aug 10, 2017
Drone Aerial Reconnaissance Used to Fight Wildfires

Insitu has announced that it has formed a partnership with natural resource management technology company FireWhat, and spatial analytics specialist...

Aug 10, 2017
KDE Direct Motors Power Winning Design at International Aerial Robotics Competition

The International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) is an annual competition challenging teams to develop aerial robots to solve engineering problems...

Aug 09, 2017
Unmanned Traffic Management Technology to be Deployed Statewide in Kansas

AirMap and Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) have announced that they will deploy Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) technology across the...

Aug 08, 2017
New Research Investigates Automated UTM Algorithms

Altitude Angel and Imperial College London have announced the results of a six-month long research project, supported by Microsoft, investigating...

Aug 07, 2017
New UAS Technology Provides Vision for GPS-Denied Navigation

A team from Draper and MIT has developed advanced vision-aided navigation techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that do not...

Aug 07, 2017
3DR Integrates Site Scan Mapping Software With DJI Drones

3DR has announced that it has integrated its Site Scan aerial data capture software platform with DJI to make it...

Aug 04, 2017
Award-Winning UAV Utilizes Teledyne High-Resolution Cameras

Teledyne DALSA has announced that it has provided the University of Toronto Aerospace Team (UTAT) UAV and Aerial Robotics Divisions...

Aug 03, 2017
Black Swift sUAS Selected for Nighttime Wildfire Observation

Black Swift Technologies (BST) has announced that the company’s small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS), SuperSwift, has been selected by the...

Aug 03, 2017
Wireless Multi-Camera System Compatible With DJI Drones

Sling Media has announced that its SlingStudio wireless and portable multi-camera video production and live broadcasting system is compatible with...

Aug 02, 2017
Insitu Unmanned Aircraft Reach One Million Flight Hours

Insitu has announced that the company’s unmanned aircraft platforms — ScanEagle, Integrator and RQ-21A Blackjack — have achieved a collective...

Aug 01, 2017
GPSdome Tests GPS Anti-Jam Technology on UAV

GPSdome has announced that it has performed successful airborne tests of its device for protection against GPS jamming and spoofing....

Jul 31, 2017
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