An autonomous flight system developer and a major hybrid VTOL manufacturer have demonstrated the ability to deliver life-saving blood and…
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Sky Range: Faster, Cheaper, Better
Hypersonic missile testing is going airborne. North Dakota has launched a new program called Sky Range that will accelerate the…
Unmanned Systems Industry Likely to Share in $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Act
“Finally,” President Biden said on Saturday, “Infrastructure Week!” And now, with the passage of the massive $1.2 trillion dollar “Infrastructure…
U.S. Farms Embrace Drone Technology Benefits
Applanix and Hylio Enhance Agriculture The amount of land and labor used on American farms has declined since the 1940s….
Five Good Questions: Pawan Kumar, Allied Market Research
Driven by a core belief in “cooperative competitiveness,” Pawan Kumar has been CEO of global market research and business consulting…
Bridging the Hardware-Data Divide
American Robotics Advances Its Autonomous Drone Approval Keeping track of materials—making, moving, tracking and consuming them—can be hard. Which…
Coast Guard Seeks New Tech Before Strategic UxS Plan
“It’s kind of like a never-ending process,” U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Thomas Remmers said, describing the work of the team…
DARPA SubT Challenge
Robots revolutionize underground operations. As the final event of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subterranean (SubT) Challenge concluded on…
ESA and UK National Air Traffic Services to Develop 5G for Hybrid UAV Positioning
The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a contract to CGI to develop a proof of concept to enhance the navigational…
Beyond the Shadow: FTUAS Competition’s Next Phase
Army solicitations are accelerating the quest to find a mobile, quiet and multi-payload brigade-level successor(s) to the venerable Shadow. On Sept….
AI Fundamentals: The Evolution of AI in Drone Systems
Artificial intelligence and deep machine learning are allowing UAS to scale and intensify their impact across many sectors. Every now…
Reeling in an Opportunity: A Fishing Trip Inspires A2Z’s Drone Delivery Solution
While on a fishing trip several years ago, watching his bait and hook sink deep in the water, Aaron Zhang…
Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: Drone Self-Navigation at Speed in Complex Environments
Harnessing onboard sensing and computing capabilities to autonomously maneuver at high speed in obstacle-laden environments constitutes the next major hurdle…
MILITARY COLLABORATION
Manned-unmanned teaming, or MUM-T, is playing a role in military operations across domains and borders. In combat, the battlefield is…
“MUMS” THE WORD
The power of manned and unmanned teaming (MUM-T), is being unleashed across the military, civil and commercial sectors. Innovation and…
Global Hawks Adapt to New Role Monitoring Hypersonic Missiles
Northrop Grumman will convert four aging Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk drones into Range Hawk surveillance platforms for monitoring hypersonic…
Things That Make You Go H.M.M.
Human-Machine-Machine Partnering for Perimeter Security Imagine this. It’s a dark, cold and stormy night at 2 a.m. A DroneDog, an…
