Drone Ship Gets More Autonomous and Offensive Capabilities
The US Navy is expanding the capabilities of its emerging submarine hunting drone ship so that it can conduct surface warfare missions, fire weapons...
Submarine-Hunting Unmanned Vessel Will Get Warfare Capabilities
The US navy is expanding the mission capabilities of its experimental submarine-hunting drone ship so that it can engage in surface warfare missions, fire...
Swarm Technology Applied to Autonomous Naval Battlefield
In a recent US Navy autonomous swarm boat demonstration, waterborne robots collaborated to identify, surround, and harass an enemy vessel. The boats can identify a...
Assessing Autonomous Vessels Anti-Collision Mechanism
For vessels operating at sea, avoiding collisions is a basic operational requirement, so collision avoidance is part of operator training. When vessels become highly...
Palm-Sized Radar for Small Drones – Under Development
A new radar-equipped drone took off last month in Texas for a series of tests aimed at finding out how well Bellevue-based Echodyne’s miniaturized...
Developments in Unmanned Maritime Vehicle World
Lockheed Martin has successfully launched the Vector Hawk, a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), on command from the Marlin MK2 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)...
UK Navy Will Conduct Unmanned Fleet Experiments
The UK Navy is operating a robot fleet of seven submarine gliders and three surface wave gliders to collect environmental data in real time...
Autonomous Devices Working Together in American Exercise
The test launch of an aerial drone from an unmanned submarine has been deemed a success, US defense contractor Lockheed Martin said in a...
Advanced Software will Navigate Unmanned Surface Vehicles
The UK Ministry of Defence has signed a licence agreement with ASV Global allowing for the use of its Advanced Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)...
Royal Navy Starts Developing Unmanned Maritime Systems
The UK Royal Navy has tested an unmanned speedboat on the River Thames ahead of the Unmanned Warrior exercise, which takes place off west...
AUS&R 2016 – Great Interest in Autonomous Systems Field
AUS&R 2016 focused the attention to the unmanned systems role both in the battlefield and in the homeland security sphere.
The convention was a remarkable...
New Developments at the AUS&R 2016 Confernece
As the presentations went on, the convention’s visitors got a clearer picture of expected developments in the unmanned aerial and land devices industry.
For example,...
After Great Anticipation: The AUS&R 2016 Convention Has Begun
Two hours ago the AUS&R convention, hosted by iHLS has begun. The annual convention, the fourth and biggest of it’s kind, will focus on...
New Partnership in Autonomous Ocean Robots
Liquid Robotics, designer and manufacturer of Wave Gliders wave- and solar-powered unmanned ocean robots, announced a new business and technology partnership with Maritime Robotics,...
US Ministry of Defense Delegation to Attend AUS&R 2016
A delegation of 14 experts from the US ministry of defense will attend the AUS&R 2016 Convention. The delegation of the US Department of...
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates New Autonomy Framework
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a new autonomy framework that enables multiple unrelated unmanned systems to communicate and collaborate on a mission. The demonstration took...
Autonomous Capabilities to be Demonstrated at Navy Exercise
Thales, a UAS and surveillance equipment manufacturer, will play an important role in a major UK Royal Navy exercise to be held in October...
World Delegations Seek Business Opportunities at Unmanned Systems Conference
The numerous delegations which will participate at the AUS&R Unmanned Systems and Robotics Conference on September 19 are interested first and foremost in doing...
Prepare to Takeoff – 2016’s AUS&R Unmanned Systems and Robotics Convention
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,...
Call for Unmanned and Robot Systems Operators – Live Demo
Are you operating innovative drones? Flying a unique UAV? A developer of a robotic system or any other autonomous vehicle - vessel or underwater...
Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicle Swarm Technology to be Demonstrated
Swarm technology enables unmanned ground or aerial vehicles to move together in swarms of dozens of vehicles at the same time and in coordination....
Royal Navy Tech Chief: Drone Ships Will Replace Sailors
Unmanned vessels will become central to the Royal Navy’s efforts in minesweeping and anti-terror missions, says a top commander, and will eventually replace manned...
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