Artist rendering of Tern drone Washington (CNN)The Pentagon is hoping a multimillion-dollar investment in new technology will enable drones on…
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Research: Small U.S. Navy Ships to Get Drones
DARPA plans to build a full-scale demonstrator system of a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system (UAS) designed to use forward-deployed…
Northrop Grumman set to develop tail-down UAV for DARPA’s Tern program
The competition to fulfil DARPA’s plan to turn US Navy destroyers and frigates into drone-launching aircraft carriers seems to be…
New Technologies Aid Arctic Operations
The need to understand environmental change within the Arctic Circle is not only driving scientific studies but the development of new, often autonomous technologies for safer, more effective research missions.
Bridging The ‘Valley Of Death’ For Navy Drones
The Navy’s UCAS demonstrator made history as the first drone to take off and land from an aircraft carrier. Its…
Kraken Acquires Marine Robotics Technology
Kraken Sonar Inc. ST. JOHN’S, NL–(Marketwired – November 17, 2015) – Kraken Sonar Inc. (“Kraken”) (TSX VENTURE: PNG ) announced…
What you need to know about underwater drones
A UUV is removed from the water during operations off the coast of Bahrain in 2013. Credit: Specialist 2nd Class…
Pentagon prepares to test its underwater sub-hunting drone
An artist’s concept of DARPA’s ACTUV. While unmanned systems have come to dominate the skies (and headlines), the next big…
Navy Fills Top Unmanned Post as Focus on Autonomous Technology Sharpens
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus this week described a future where swarms of self-launching unmanned aircraft will cooperate to overwhelm an adversary and quad copters will be able to linger underwater before surfacing to fly.
Northrop Grumman & U.S. Navy Demonstrate Fire Scout Capabilities
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy recently planned a 10-hour, 150 nautical mile flight for the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter.
RE2 Robotics Receives Order from iRobot for SLM Arms
RE2 Robotics recently received a $910,000 order from iRobot for its Small Lightweight Manipulator, or SLM, arms. iRobot plans to…
RE2 Robotics Wins $2.7M Contract from Office of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research recently reward RE2 Robotics a $2.7 million contract to develop an Underwater Dexterous Manipulation System for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Applications (DMEA).
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Takes Home Top Prize in the 8th Annual RoboBoat Competition
In July, 16 teams gathered in Virginia Beach to compete in the eighth annual RoboBoat Competition, with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
Press Release: Systron Donner Inertial Awarded Spearfish Heavyweight Torpedo IMU Contract from BAE Systems
Concord, CA – August 13, 2015 – BAE Systems has awarded a contract to Systron Donner Inertial (SDI), a brand of…
SeeByte and Research Partners Receive Funding for Second Phase of Autonomous Ocean Research
SeeByte, ASV and the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom recently received funding to complete the second phase of…
US Weighs UAS-Friendly GPS Backup System
The comment period is about to close on a potential navigation backup system for GPS that could be very useful for unmanned systems.
Northrop Grumman’s X-47B Unmanned Aircraft Refuels In-Flight
For the first time, an unmanned system has refueled while in flight.
