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

Advanced UAV Lab to be Built at Imperial College London

A new £1.25 million arena for flying the next generation of aerial robots will be constructed at Imperial College London,...

Nov 06, 2014
Altavian to Provide Sensor Payloads for US Army RQ-20 Puma UAS

Lockheed Martin’s partner Altavian Inc. has been awarded a $4 million contract to provide gimbaled sensor payloads for the Army’s...

Nov 06, 2014
£120m Contracts Agreed for Anglo-French Combat UAVs

A set of contracts worth £120 million has been awarded for the early phase of a development programme for unmanned...

Nov 06, 2014
PrecisionHawk Receives $10m of Funding from Intel Capital

PrecisionHawk, an unmanned aerial systems and remote sensing company, has announced that Intel Capital has joined its previously announced Series B funding round...

Nov 05, 2014
Trimble Announces Enhancements to UAV Aerial Imaging Application

Trimble has announced the latest enhancements to its Trimble® Access™ Aerial Imaging 2.0 application — making it even more robust,...

Nov 03, 2014
Multiverse Media Group Launches UAV Videography Service

Multiverse Media Group, a firm comprised of marketing, web and video experts, has announced the launch of its aerial videography...

Oct 31, 2014
University of Hawaii Maps Lava Flow with Sensefly UAV

Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo have successfully mapped the active flow front of the June 27, 2014...

Oct 31, 2014
Australian Air Force to Retain Heron Unmanned Aircraft

Australian Minister for Defence Senator David Johnston has announced the return of a Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) to Australia...

Oct 31, 2014
Colombian Ministry of Defense Orders UAV Systems

AERTEC Solutions, an aeronautical engineering company, and In-Nova Group, a multinational technological innovation firm, have been awarded a contract to...

Oct 31, 2014
Insitu Announces Next-Generation ScanEagle 2 UAV Platform

Insitu has announced the ScanEagle 2, the next generation of its revolutionary ScanEagle platform. Leveraging lessons learned from more than...

Oct 30, 2014
Airbus Defence & Space and DCNS to Develop Ship-Based UAS

Airbus Defence and Space and DCNS have signed a cooperation agreement to develop a ship-based helicopter UAS capability. This technological...

Oct 30, 2014
UMS Demonstrate Tactical Fixed-Wing UAV in Uruguay

UMS Group AG, a Swiss/Swedish unmanned systems developer and manufacturer, has demonstrated their F-330 tactical fixed-wing UAS to a delegation of over...

Oct 28, 2014
Michigan State Police Standardizes UAS Program with Aeryon SkyRanger

Aeryon Labs Inc. has announced that the Michigan State Police (MSP) has chosen to standardize its state-wide UAS deployment with...

Oct 27, 2014
ING Robotic Aviation Launch Updated Rapid Wide Area Mapping UAV

ING Robotic Aviation, a Canadian provider of robotic aircraft sensing solutions, has announced the launch of the next version of...

Oct 27, 2014
MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter to Undergo Shipboard Testing

Northrop Grumman have successfully completed precision sloped landing tests with the MQ-8C Fire Scout at Naval Base Ventura County, Point...

Oct 24, 2014
RIEGL Release Video of RiCOPTER UAV Flight Demonstration

RIEGL have released a video of the flight performance of their recently launched RiCOPTER UAV laser scanning system. RiCOPTER is a...

Oct 24, 2014
UAS Europe Releases New Spy Owl 200 Surveillance UAV

UAS Europe has announced the launch of a surveillance version of its flight-proven Spy Owl 200 Unmanned Aircraft System. The...

Oct 24, 2014
Presagis and Ryerson University to Partner on UAV Technologies

Presagis, a provider of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) modeling, simulation, and embedded graphics software, and Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, are...

Oct 23, 2014
Headwall Delivers Imaging Sensors to Columbia University for Climate Change Investigation

Headwall Photonics has delivered two high-performance hyperspectral imaging sensors to Columbia University as part of its Air-Sea-Ice Physics and Biogeochemistry...

Oct 23, 2014
Stark Aerospace Introduces HoverLite Tethered Hovering Aerial ISR System

Stark Aerospace, as part of a rapid research and development effort sponsored by the Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO),...

Oct 23, 2014
Blue Bear and e-Go Announce Partnership at Commercial UAV Show

Blue Bear Systems Research and e-Go aeroplanes have announced their signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the two...

Oct 23, 2014
Scion UAS Successfully Completes SA-400 Jackal Flight Test Program

Scion UAS has completed a series of capability demonstrations of the SA-400 Jackal, an optionally piloted helicopter system. The demonstration...

Oct 21, 2014
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Used to Photograph Killer Whales

For the first time, scientists have used an unmanned aerial vehicle to study killer whales from above. The device they’re...

Oct 21, 2014
Boeing X-37B Unmanned Orbital Vehicle Successfully Completes 3rd Flight

The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has successfully de-orbited and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, concluding a 674-day...

Oct 20, 2014
Fusion of Manned and Unmanned Aerial Systems Used to Fight California Wildfire

  SkyIMD, a provider of aerial imaging solutions, combined UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and manned aircraft technologies to fight the...

Oct 17, 2014
Alta Devices and Airware to Integrate Solar Power into Small UAVs

Alta Devices has announced cooperation with Airware to enable manufacturers of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to seamlessly integrate solar...

Oct 17, 2014
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