Inside Unmanned Systems

When Ingenuity Flies on Mars, It Will Be an Extraplanetary Inertial First. A First for UAVs, Too.

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The first powered, controlled flight on another planet, now re-scheduled for no earlier than April 14, will employ inertial technology…
Smart Following Robot Creates Wider Autonomous Applications in Construction, Ag, More

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Piaggio Fast Forward, a provider of smart following technology, and Trimble will collaborate to enable robots and machines to follow…
Eco-Sustainable Vertiport for Sporty 2-Passenger UAVs on the Drawing Boards in Italy

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EHang Holdings Limited, a Chinese provider of autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs), has partnered with Italian architecture firm Giancarlo Zema Design…
Singapore Completes, Demonstrates Working UTM System

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OneSky and Nova Systems have completed a three-year project researching, prototyping, and implementing an Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system or…
Transforming Building Inspection in NYC

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Y Bird Airways is putting unmanned technology to full use in a challenging metropolitan environment; regulatory authorities scramble to keep…
Loyal Wingman Air-Teaming UAV Gets Up Down Under

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In late February, Boeing Australia and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) successfully completed the first test flight of the…
Digging Deep

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Drones are making their mark in mining, allowing for more efficient inspections, increased productivity, improved prospecting and enhanced safety. For…
Sensing Collaboration

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To build its new U.S. headquarters, leading laser scanning company RIEGL enlisted major construction engineering company DPR. Both firms profited from working together.

Army Futures Command's Future Vertical Lift cross-functional team, in conjuction with The U.S. Army Program Executive Office - Aviation, Aviation Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate, and the Manuever Battle Lab, conducted flight tests and manuevers on February 25-26, 2021 at Leyte West Airfield, Fort Benning, Georgia. The Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) Rodeo occuring on March 2-5, 2021 is the capstone event for a yearlong capabilities assessment of four commercial UAV systems conducted by five brigade combat teams. The Army is conducting a "buy, try, inform" approach to rapidly develop informed requirements for an RQ7 Shadow replacement. (U.S. Army Photo by Mr. Luke J. Allen)

April 15, 2021Air, Military

How Do You Spell Joint? A-R-M-Y: A DOD Update on Unmanned Systems Defense

By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Retired)

In a March 4, 2020 Policy Memo (PM), the new Secretary of Defense (SecDef), General Lloyd Austin, unveiled his top…

April 15, 2021Air

Cyberhawk Performing Utility Inspections for SP Energy Networks

By Renee Knight

Cyberhawk recently signed an agreement to deliver drone-based inspection services for SP Energy Networks’ 2,400 electricity transmission structures in Central…

April 14, 2021Air

UPS Flight Forward to Deploy eVTOL from Beta Technologies

By Renee Knight

In the next few years, eVTOLs from Beta Technologies (BETA) will quietly take off and land on-property at UPS facilities…

April 13, 2021Air

DroneSense Awarded SaaS Contract from Texas Department of Public Safety

By Renee Knight

After working with DroneSense on a trial basis over the last few years, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)…

Graphics showing the featured extraction of Mobile- and Drone-Based LiDAR Services for Highway 14A near Deadwood, SD. (009007_0024)

April 8, 2021Air, Survey

Houston Engineering Deploys Drone-Based LiDAR for Road Surveys

By Renee Knight

For years, the team at Houston Engineering has deployed drones to collect data for a variety of projects, quickly providing…

OpenRTK330LI Evaluation Kit. Courtesy ACEINNA.

April 5, 2021Land

OpenARC GNSS-Inertial Hardware/Software for Autonomous Agriculture, Construction, Mapping, Surveying, Robotics, Trucking

By Inside Unmanned Systems

ACEINNA, a developer of inertial-based guidance and navigation systems for autonomous vehicles and devices, announced the commercial availability of OpenARC,…