Applanix and Hylio Enhance Agriculture The amount of land and labor used on American farms has declined since the 1940s….
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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…
Militaries Are Taking Unmanned Underwater
As systems continue to evolve and data collection becomes more sophisticated, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are playing a bigger military…
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…
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…
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…
Up Close With…Darshan “Dash” Divakaran
Since the start of 2021, Darshan “Dash” Divakaran has operated at the nexus of military and commercial UAS development. He’s…
Perrone Robotics: Forging A Path to Autonomy
To the hearts and minds of many observers, the real promise of autonomous vehicles has been freedom on the Great…
THE SKIES GROW EVEN MORE BLUE FOR DOD UAS
The DIU’s Blue UAS initiative is developing trusted sUAS for the DOD and beyond. In military lingo, “blue” denotes friendly…
FTUAS Selection Process Proceeds
The Army has announced that the procurement process for the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System is accelerating. “The acquisition process…
Drones Can Help Fly Defibrillators to Save Cardiac Arrest Patients
Drones could deliver automated defibrillators to patients whose hearts stopped in Sweden, arriving on target and ahead of ambulances in…