Swarm
US Army Develops More Swarms
According to reports, the US Army is looking to swarming technology to be able to execute time-consuming or dangerous tasks since future multi-domain battles...
Drones Can Improve YOUR Situational Awareness
Groups of drones now can work together in networks for purposes such as traffic control, smart agriculture, surveillance and security systems, law enforcement, public...
Drone Swarms Can Replace Manual Human Inspection
An autonomous offshore wind farm inspection technology under development will use aerial “drone swarms” deployed from an uncrewed marine robotic vessel. The system, developed...
How an Autonomous Drone Saves Lives
With the increase in recent years of refugees fleeing from dangerous areas via the sea, an urgent humanitarian crisis, some researchers have begun developing...
Secret Documents Reveal Plans for Super Swarm Project
Recently shown budget documents reveal that the US Navy is currently working on ways to build, deploy, and control thousands of small drones that...
US Military Acquiring Underwater Swarm Warfare Technology
The US Navy aims to acquire several unmanned surface and underwater vehicles capable of deploying drone swarms in contested territory. The Navy has handed...
This Microwave Drone Zaps UAV Swarms Out Of The Sky
The widespread commercial availability of cheap and capable drones means that they are available to unconventional adversaries as much as near-peer competitors. And because...
Micro Drones Detect Dangerous Componds
When there is a gas leak in a large building or at an industrial site, human firefighters need to go in with gas sensing...
Microwave Energy Disrupts Drone Swarms With Ease
Directed microwave energy has emerged as a promising solution against swarms of drones. However, the bulkiness of conventional microwave weapons makes them a pain...
Super Hornet and UAVs – Controlling Swarms Right from The Cockpit
The Pentagon has proclaimed time and time again that it seems as though manned-unmanned teaming, collaboration between piloted planes and autonomous drones/robotic wingmen, as...
Watch: Drone Swarm Avoiding Obstacles in Thick Forest
Drone swarms have been usually tested in open environments without obstacles, or with the location of those obstacles pre-programmed. Highly cluttered environments such as...
U.S. Army Will Demonstrate Drones That Behave Like a Wolf Pack
Later this year, U.S. forces will study UAV swarms within Project Convergence, which will be conducted with the Marine Corps and the Army.
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THOR’s Hammer: AFRL’s drone killer
When used for hostile purposes, drones and unmanned aerial vehicles can pose a significant threat. Nowadays, even skimmers available on the free market can...
US Army Will Demo Offensive Drone Swarms
As part of the Project Convergence experimentation effort this fall, the U.S. Army is preparing to demonstrate an offensive drone swarm capability. This capability...
New Technology Enables Demo Autonomous Search and Follow
In an intriguing experiment, an unmanned aircraft was used with virtual tools to perform swarm action. ASI-GA, a provider of remote-controlled aircraft systems, is...
New Microwave-Based Counter-Drone Tech Under Development
High-power microwave (HPM) weapons provide non-kinetic defeat of targets. The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will develop a new HPM weapon system prototype,...
Advanced Swarm Platform to be Integrated in Special Operations
Operational, intelligent swarming aircraft autonomy will be integrated into US Air Force unmanned platforms. The combat-proven Hivemind autonomy software will advance the autonomous collaboration...
Drone Swarm Successfully Tested in Urban Setting
Impressive drone swarm capabilities were showcased in a US military exercise. Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS) has demonstrated an active drone swarm operating in...
Counter-UAV Technologies Demonstrated Successfully in Collaboration with US Army
In partnership with the U.S. Army’s Integrated Fires and Rapid Capabilities Office, Raytheon Missiles & Defense successfully showcased several counter-unmanned aircraft system capabilities during...
Aircraft Inspection Breakthrough Demonstrated
Aircraft inspection by drones has transformed maintenance norms and is being introduced by airlines around the world. Whereas maintenance specialists previously had to perform...
Non-Kinetic Protection for Military Bases
An advanced counter drone system is concluding an operational assessment. Drone swarms have posed a challenge to both high-cost weapons systems and small arms,...
Autonomous Swarms Are Reaching Urban Environment
The development of autonomous swarm technology is moving one step forward, with capabilities rapidly nearing availability for future operations.
Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms...
