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DARPA Looking for Technologies That Could Help Unmanned Surface Vessels Perceive and Classify Nearby Objects
DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program, ACTUV, wants to develop an unmanned vessel that can track enemy diesel-electric…
NASA’s Global Hawks Will Continue to Study Severe Weather this Hurricane Season
While the HS3 mission completed its third and final year in 2014, NOAA will continue to research severe weather using NASA’s Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft.
Delphi’s Driverless Vehicle Set for a 3,500-Mile Coast-to-Coast Road Trip
Delphi’s driverless Audi SQ5 set out on a 3,500 mile drive that will take it from San Francisco’s Golden Gate…
Amazon Gets Permission to Test Delivery Drones Outdoors
Aviation regulators gave Amazon the go-ahead Mar. 19 to begin testing its delivery drones, a move the agency hinted at in February when it proposed new rules for small, unmanned aircraft.
Baidu May Release Driverless Vehicle Later This Year
Baidu Inc., the owner of China’s largest search engine, announced the company may release an autonomous vehicle this year, according…
ING Robotic Aviation Tests UAV Ice Monitoring in the Arctic
During this two-week mission on board Fednav’s ice-breaking cargo ship MV Arctic, the team tested ING’s Responder to collect imagery that could help ship captains navigate these dangerous, icy waters.
Lone Star UAS Center Tests Ground-Based Sense-and-Avoid Radar System
Sense-and-avoid technology is critical to safely and successfully integrating unmanned aircraft systems into the U.S. airspace, which is why testing…
Drone Aviation Corp Launches WATT-200, a Tethered Drone that Can Hover from Altitudes of Up To 300 feet
Drove Aviation Corp recently released the WATT-200, a tethered drone that can be launched from TV production trucks, first responder…
HeatCoat Anti-Icing Technology for UAVs Passes Wind Tunnel Testing
Battelle’s HeatCoat anti-icing technology designed for UAVs demonstrated its ability to perform in-flight anti-icing and de-icing functions during recent wind…
Drones Capture Volcano Video
Making it possible to create a 3D model of the volcano from the inside.
AMS Set to Pilot the Datamaran Later this Year
Designed to deliver precision data from the ocean through the deployment of sensing and communication devices, and now undergoing pilot tests.
MotionDSP Partners with Universities to Help Advance UAS Research
MotionDSP recently announced collaborations with Auburn University, the University of North Dakota and Kansas State University Salina to research new applications using video.
NASA Could Be Sending A Submarine to Study Titan’s Methane Seas
NASA’s COMPASS Conceptual Spacecraft Design Team recently completed a design for an autonomous submarine that could be sent to Saturn’s largest moon to explore what’s below its largest northern sea.
Life-Size Robot Achieves Firefighting Milestone on Navy Ship
Firefighting robot SAFFiR, short for Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, has passed its first milestone on the USS Shadwell, a decommissioned…
Sensing Hot Spots
A team within the University of Canterbury’s Spatial Engineering Research Centre (SERC) in Christchurch, New Zealand, is developing a UAV…
