Unmanned Systems

The United States Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5) has recently touched down back on Earth. After spending 780 days floating in orbit,...

Autonomous systems struggle most at close range. While long-distance sensing is relatively mature, many accidents and failures occur within tens of meters, where blind...

Boeing’s UAV manufacturer Insitu recently showcased its newest wide-area maritime surface search and identification technology for representatives from the UK Royal Navy as well...

Drawing on world class know-how derived from generations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) design, development and operation and its naval capabilities, Elbit Systems’ newest...

The EU has recently presented a blueprint to safely regulate drone traffic in Europe by 2019 in order to tap the growing commercial potential...

Dr. Noa Agmon, a researcher at BIU, talked to I-HLS shortly after AUS&R 2015 on the role of robots in the future battlefield. Dr. Agmon...

A new commercial software that enables operators to simultaneously control dozens of unmanned vehicles and conduct information, surveillance and reconnaissance missions called VCSi was...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) and Lockheed Martin have demonstrated a mixed formation of manned and unmanned F-16s in a simulated combat...

A recent collaboration enhances counter-drone capabilities on tethered aerial vehicles (TAVs). Zenith AeroTech, a developer of heavy-lift tethered aerial vehicles, has partnered with DroneShield...

As unmanned aerial systems have entered the Public Safety realm, most of the focus to date has been around small, low-cost systems. Major disasters...

A new breakthrough in drone defense technology has emerged from Sweden, with the introduction of the Kreuger 100 interceptor by Nordic Air Defence. Designed...

China is continuing its trend of robotizing human jobs. After replacing pharmacists with robots and developing a robotic police patrol officer, China wants technology...

UAV numbers are growing fast, with different types for a multitude of different uses. Today they range from large MALE and HALE systems (Medium...

Uvision, the Israel manufacturer of unmanned expandable unmanned air systems (UAS), has unveiled its Hero-30 system, the smallest version of its family of such...

Unlike the larger non-mobile, multi-million-dollar aerostats which require significant numbers of support personnel and a fixed infrastructure, the WASP is a compact, tactical, mobile...

The future is already here: Micro robots (1 cm in length) operate in groups, build towers and decorate Christmas trees. It seems that any day...

Amid the escalating tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill on January 15, that included “suicide drones” crash into...

Given the recent drone attack on the Venezuelan president and the high profile mailbomb terrorist attacks in the United States, a new counter-drone jamming...

A new generation of autonomous agricultural vehicles is emerging, designed to handle field operations with the precision and adaptability of human workers—without human drivers....

Recent attempts by the US military to retrieve swarming drones have failed. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has been leading the...

The aerospace giant Airbus has been developing new sensor systems that function both on board and on the ground in attempt to improve US...

Stepping towards integrating robotics into law enforcement, Chinese authorities have begun testing an autonomous spherical robot, the RT-G, developed by the local robotics company...