A company with military application roots is leveraging two decades of autonomous mobility experience to scale its autonomy solution for…
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Russia’s War in Ukraine
Points to a Future Where Drone Warfare Isn’t Just a Rich Man’s Game
GNSS Put to the Test, on the Battlefield and Beyond
For unmanned aerial vehicles, precise positioning, navigation and timing systems are widely seen as absolutely requisite, and their resilience needs…
ALEs: Multiplatform Force Multipliers
Smaller and cheaper, yet interoperable and effective, Air-Launched Effects are expanding the Army’s reach and power. One company details the…
Checking In: FTUAS Moves Forward, Stealthily
The Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS) program—the U.S. Army’s initiative to replace the RQ-7 Shadow with a far more nimble and…
Moving Forward with LiDAR
Laser scanning is becoming an instrumental part of the transportation industry, with agencies, local governments and OEMs among those leveraging…
Teledyne FLIR Develops and Collaborates on Bringing AI to the Edge
By Arthur Stout “Overcoming the Challenges of Bringing AI to the Edge” is a new, insightful paper authored by Arthur…
Transit: Getting There Publicly
Spurred by consumer use and municipal priorities, autonomous public transit is poised for growth. Despite the current focus on private…
Digitizing Transit: From Design to Service Provision
High-quality digital tools for 3D geolocation are helping to unlock the full potential of next-generation transit systems, enabling increased efficiency…
Mapping the Landscape for Drone Surveying
As with so many other market applications that require extensive data collection and precise measurements, drones have radically changed the…
Pushing the Limits: Construction industry fosters new roads to autonomous
Labor, machines and materials—the three critical elements of any infrastructure construction effort—have begun to realign in a way that will…
A Risk-Based Approach: The UAS BLVOS Arc Final Report
The flight path toward normalizing and integrating UAS into the National Airspace System begins to clear. The long-awaited Unmanned Aircraft…
No-Fly with No Crews
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is full of lessons for the US. New ones like the lethality of modern anti-tank missiles…
Horsch and Trimble: The Farmer as Autonomist
From family farming to the Berlin Wall’s fall to today’s autonomous solutions, HORSCH and its namesake founder have seen it…
Up Close With…Joe Liefer, John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group, On Farm Autonomy
One hundred eighty-five years in, Deere’s agricultural initiatives have gone from plows to near-full tractor autonomy. In 1837, John Deere…
In Pursuit of Pests
From plant-juice sucking psyllids to rampaging pachyderms, drones and sensors are combatting food pests.
Use Cases: Food Autonomy Goes Global
Innovative developers are exploiting enormous opportunities in the sphere of agricultural automation and unmanned autonomy. In addition to robotic machines,…