Unmanned Systems

MIT’s Super Mini Cheetah is small, cute, inexpensive, and somewhat comical with its stuffed animal head. It’s capable of walking, jumping, running, and turning,...

Drones will soon be able to manage their work without human input, radar or even GPS satellite navigation, according to a team of researchers...

The first flight of India's new combat-capable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Rustom-II is scheduled to be held by the end of July in Chitradurga...

Aviation associations representing airlines, pilots and airports across Europe called for mandatory registration and training of drone users following a number of near-misses between...

The GRIFF 300 drone combines a lifting capacity of up to 300 kg and a long flight time (30-45 mins). The large drone, manufactured...

  Germany has decided to extend the leasing contract of the Heron UAS, a surveillance unmanned aerial system. IAI's Heron have recently reached 30,000 operational...

A UAS battlefield demonstrator program has gained momentum in the UK. In what turned out to be a crucial speech at the University of...

Before thousands of drones hit the skies to make widespread package delivery a reality, there’s going to have to be some kind of air...

With the autonomous vehicle frenzy everywhere, so it’s no surprise that Apple is putting some of its efforts in the subject. The company has...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts to five defense firms to develop ideas for new unmanned aerial systems that will...

Static surveillance balloons or blimps are considered almost standard equipment for monitoring borders, facilities, areas and army bases. Similar to unmanned aerial vehicles, modern...

For generations, new designs for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft have remained unable to increase top speed without sacrificing range, efficiency or the ability...

Articles and issues covered in this episode: Australian authorities warn commercial drone operators New technology allows remote wiping of mobile devices Giant lobster robot saves lives and conducts...

Domestic Drone Countermeasures, an Oregon-based company that designs drone countermeasure systems, said it “has received death threats; witnessed comments systematically killed in articles, blogs...

Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (UAVs) are sent to complex and faraway espionage and reconnaissance missions, thereby avoiding the high risks posed to manned missions. This special...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (21 October 2014): German intelligence: Turkey is working on its own nuclear program Gamers hacked US Army Apache simulator US...

The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), in charge among other things of issuing operating certificates to all UAVs, has recently decided to revise...

Collecting data via satellites was once a capability solely for powerful countries, particularly the United States. Starting from the 1980s, however, more countries acquired...

  261 times this year American satellites’ communications were jammed. This wasn’t done by enemy forces or by unfriendly nations, such as Russia or China....

Not content with snatching up the World Cup, Dubai has now unveiled plans to hold a different kind of competition: the World Future Sports...

We’ve have written at length on these pages about the dismal state of security in most consumer-grade tech products. For many manufacturers, it seems,...

A team of Harvard University researchers has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3-D-printed robot — nicknamed the “octobot” —...