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

New Robotic Solution for Installing Bird Diverters on Overhead Power Lines

The Mini LineFly is a revolutionary unmanned system that automatically and precisely installs diverters on overhead lines, helping increase project efficiency and safety for lineworkers

Jan 22, 2024
Draganfly to Provide Drone Delivery for Mass General Brigham’s Home Hospital

Draganfly's drone technology and pilot services will map and develop delivery routes to support the needs of Mass General Brigham's patients and staff

Jan 22, 2024
Most Read Articles on UST This Week

Here’s our round-up of the five most read articles on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com this week

Jan 20, 2024
EDGE to Display Unmanned Technology at UMEX and SimTEX 2024

EDGE will showcase fixed-wing loitering munitions, a stealth aircraft, a multi-role performance helicopter, tactical logistics helicopters, and much more advanced unmanned technology

Jan 19, 2024
Water Quality Monitored with Electric Drones

Skyports Drone Services and Makutu have completed test flights for a drone inspection service to monitor quality of river and coastal water, and are now launching a pilot study with Northumbrian Water

Jan 19, 2024
CoPre: An Ecosystem for Optimized LiDAR and RGB Data Processing

CHCNAV’s CoPre provides a solution for georeferencing, analysis, and modeling of 3D point cloud data captured by airborne, vehicle-based, & drone LiDAR scanners or imaging systems

Jan 19, 2024
NASA Conducts Air Taxi Research with Autonomous Drones

NASA researchers flew multiple drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) in a test seen as an important step towards advancing self-flying capabilities for air taxis

Jan 19, 2024
Wing Unveils New Delivery Drone with Increased Payload Capacity

The new aircraft has a round-trip range of 12 miles, can cruise approximately 65 miles per hour, all while carrying a standard cardboard delivery box with a payload up to five pounds

Jan 18, 2024
AI-Based Autonomous Drone Solutions for Mission-Critical Military & Civilian Applications

Skydio's drone systems are NDAA-compliant and Blue UAS-listed, and are trusted by every brand of the U.S. Department of Defense, all FVEY countries and across NATO

Jan 18, 2024
Airbus Helicopters Acquires Aerovel and its UAS

Aerovel’s Flexrotor is a small tactical UAS designed for ISTAR missions at sea and over land, with a maximum launch weight of 25kg and the ability to integrate different payloads

Jan 17, 2024
Land-Based Drone Detection Radar Capability Unveiled

Terma’s augmented SCANTER 5000 radar series is armed with AI and machine learning, able to comprehensively analyze incoming data in order to accurately detect drones

Jan 17, 2024
DJI Launches First Delivery Drone

The FlyCart 30 (FC30) drone overcomes traditional transport challenges with its large payload capacity, long operation range, high reliability, and intelligent features

Jan 17, 2024
Worldwide Halo Drone Communications Platform Released

The worldwide version of Elsight’s Halo drone communications system enables users to use just one Halo connectivity platform across different cellular communications providers

Jan 17, 2024
Contract Awarded for Remote CBRN Detection Using Autonomous Drone Fleets

Draper has been awarded a Pentagon contract for remote CBRN reconnaissance using autonomous teaming drones in degraded operating environments

Jan 16, 2024
Ultra-Long Endurance VTOL UAV Platform Launched

T-DRONES' new VTOL fixed-wing UAV, VA23, has a maximum range of 240km, level 5 wind resistance, a payload capacity of 2.5kg, and a flight duration of up to 4 hours without payload

Jan 15, 2024
Most Read Articles on UST This Week

Here’s our round-up of the five most read articles on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com this week

Jan 13, 2024
AIDrone Unveiled at CES 2024

Nearthlab's AIDrone combines the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with drone technology to assist a wide range of tasks across various industries, including infrastructure inspection, renewables, and public safety

Jan 12, 2024
Skydio Enters Final Phase of Short Range Reconnaissance Program

Skydio X10D is an sUAS that enables 24/7 operations, with the revolutionary NightSense enabling autonomous, obstacle-avoidance flight in zero-light environments

Jan 12, 2024
New Thermal Imaging Payload Launched

Inspired Flight Technologies and Gremsy have partnered on a new thermal imaging payload for the IF800 Tomcat drone, providing unprecedented capabilities in aerial imaging & surveillance

Jan 12, 2024
Alpha Unmanned Systems Year in Review

Alpha Unmanned Systems looks back on a year of growth and innovation

Jan 11, 2024
ANELLO Launches 3-Axis Optical Gyroscope IMU

The ANELLO X3 is a small, lightweight, low-power, tri-axial optical gyroscope providing high accuracy, performance and reliability for today’s autonomous applications

Jan 11, 2024
New Bathymetric LiDAR system from YellowScan

The YellowScan Navigator is an innovative bathymetric LiDAR solution featuring a laser scanner fine-tuned to map waterbeds within a depth range of 0-3m from up to 100m above the water

Jan 10, 2024
PABLO AIR Unveils Innovative Versatile Drone ‘FB04’ at CES 2024

The 'FB04’, making its debut at CES 2024, is a versatile performance drone designed for dynamic maneuvers with swift mobility, able to carry out precise formation flights

Jan 10, 2024
Manufacturing to Start on Aurora Flight Sciences’ Full-Scale X-Plane

The X-65 is configured to be modular, featuring replaceable outboard wings and swappable active flow control (AFC) effectors, which allows for future testing of additional AFC designs

Jan 05, 2024
Neousys FLYC-300 Recognized as Platinum in the Embedded Computing Category

FLYC-300 is a mission computer for drone systems, weighing just 300 grams and able to deliver up to 100 TOPS AI performance for AI-based applications and autonomy capability

Jan 05, 2024
UAVOS’ Most Significant Advancements in 2023

UAVOS has issued a review looking at the highlights from 2023 discussing continued MALE UAS innovation, production facility growth, and on-going global developments in drone-based services

Jan 05, 2024
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.