Unmanned Systems

The U.S. Navy has tested and deployed the AeroVironment RQ-20B Puma, a small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aboard a Flight I Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile...

CNN announced the launch of CNN Aerial Imagery and Reporting (CNN AIR). For the first time in the company’s history, CNN will have a...

NASA has designed an innovative antenna-mounting platform that meets the needs of the unmanned aircraft market by providing a low-cost, low-power mobile auto-tracking antenna....

San Francisco based robotics startup Zipline will test drone delivery of medical supplies to remote U.S. regions. The Deliveries will include lifesaving blood, medicine,...

The Unmanned Systems and Robotics AUS&R 2016 international convention has been attracting the attention of world’s leading states and defense industries, including the US,...

The Indian government has denied any plans to purchase the US-developed Predator drones. The statement comes as a surprise considering previous reports suggesting that India's...

Artificial intelligence (AI) won air combats in a high-fidelity simulator aganist human pilots. The AI was recently assessed by subject-matter expert and retired United...

Drones help protect West Virginia from landslides. Woolpert Inc., a Beavercreek-based engineering firm, says its UAS are now monitoring landslide areas in northern West...

Implant Sciences Corporation, an American company from the explosives-trace-detection business is in the process of purchasing Zapata Industries SAS, a French hoverboard company that...

The navalised variant of the the Kamov Ka-52 Alligator (Hokum-B) attack/reconnaissance helicopter - the Ka-52K Katran - will be equipped with a compact active...

A new research out of Arizona State University with DARPA funding. Using a skullcap fitted with 128 electrodes wired to a computer, researchers are able...

The London-based big data startup Flock is building a platform for performing real-time quantified risk analysis of drone flights, including by applying AI (artificial...

Michigan-based Vayu, Inc. made history when it completed the first ever series of long-range, fully autonomous drone flights with blood and stool samples this...

The White House has released an edited version of President Barack Obama's once-secret policy on using drone aircraft to combat terrorists around the world,...

The world of "first person view" (FPV) flying, where pilots wear video specs to see from the drone’s point of view while it flies...

Iraq is to acquire the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under a USD8.3 million deal announced by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Insitu...

Until not long ago China was reluctant to open to the developments in the Internet shpere. However, in recent years this country has been...

Leading drone manufacturers are integrating various types of small-size cameras into their systems. The problem becomes pronounced in terms of size and the picture...

Student-designed-and-built autonomous robotic submarines had to complete a difficult series of visual- and acoustic-based tasks in the international competition RoboSub held in San Diego,...

Aerostats serve for various missions in the homeland security sphere. Russia’s National Guard is planning to purchase four PA-60 aerostats in 2016-2017, the press office...

Sampath Reddy Vengate, a recent MA graduate from University of Texas at Arlington in science and engineering, is the first person to successfully test...

Last week the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy hosted the first-ever Workshop on Drones and the Future of Aviation, which gathered...