Topcon Positioning Group announces an expansion of the Topnet Live Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) network of correction solutions…
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CHECKING IN WITH INGENUITY
Hitting Double Digits, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity has exceeded expectations “This flight was specifically designed to hit some high-value science targets,…
Inside XPONENTIAL
Yay—the plague is managed to a point where we can go to XPONENTIAL in PERSON this year! If you are…
REALITY Project to Adapt Aviation’s Required Navigation Performance (RNP) Metric to UAVs
Geonumerics, a Spanish/Catalan geospatial company, is directing an intensive flight campaign project, RPAS EGNOS Adoption and Liaison with navigation integrITY…
Blue Shadow Autonomous Hydrography Vessel
The Fugro Blue Shadow is a 9-meter long uncrewed surface vessel designed to increase data acquisition efficiency and accelerate hydrographic…
Hyundai Heavy Tests Fully Autonomous Passenger Ship
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group (HHIH) has successfully conducted a test-run of a fully autonomous cruise ship backed by its own…
Multi-Million Dollar Subterranean Challenge for Autonomous Robots Training for Response
Eight teams have qualified for the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge Systems Competition Final Event. On September 21-23, 2021, the teams’…
Carrying Collaboration Forward: Your Thoughts About Post-Pandemic Practices
During May, as the first rays of beyond-COVID sunshine could be detected, Inside Unmanned Systems asked our e-newsletter and social…
Crysalis™ Offers Ground Control Simplicity, Interoperability to Frontline Combatants
In biology, a chrysalis marks a stage along a caterpillar’s transformation into a full-grown butterfly or moth. Now, AeroVironment is…
Microdrones and GE Bring Expertise, Scale to the GE Industrial Drone Line
On July 7, high-end UAV solutions company Microdrones and multinational conglomerate GE entered into a licensing partnership to provide powerful…
Aerial and Ground Robots Team Up For Precision Farming
Automated collaborations could boost yields, reduce pesticide use.
Avigation: Federalism in the Age of Complex Operations
Starbucks coffees, groceries and beignets already fly over neighborhoods near you. Next up: Uber-like VTOL taxis to ferry passengers around…
To Swarm, Or Not To Swarm
That is the question—whether ‘tis nobler to let swarms of small, inexpensive drones suffer the slings and arrows of enemy…
Amsterdam’s Canals Float Fleet of Autonomous Boats for Transport, Waste Collection
Roboat is the world’s first major research program on autonomous floating vessels in metropolitan areas. It enables creation of dynamic…
Aerial Refueling: Another Unmanned First
The U.S. Navy and Boeing demonstrated air-to-air refueling using an unmanned aircraft, Boeing’s MQ-25 T1 test asset, to refuel another…
Euro Drone MALE Defense and Security UAV to Start This Year, Take Air in 2029
Germany, Spain, Italy and France are working together on the Euro drone, a medium altitude long endurance (MALE) remotely piloted…
Marines in Training with Dronebuster Counter-UAS Tactical Weapons
U.S. Marine Corps infantrymen have a new type of weapon to defend against enemy unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Drones are…
