Platform One

June 12th 2025

Japanese telecom company NTT has developed a system where a UAV can trigger lightning to protect cities and infrastructure. The successful UAV-based lightning triggering and guidance experiment uses electric field fluctuations...

June 12th 2025

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh (USA) have developed an AI system for training off-road autonomous vehicles. Successfully navigating off-road terrain requires time...

June 12th 2025

RIC Robotics is developing a 20 ft tall autonomous construction robot called Zyrex. The ‘giantroid’ is designed to be cognitive and, ultimately, fully autonomous, industrial...

June 12th 2025

Researchers in the US have developed a dynamic calibration technique that allows a network of small radar systems to detect UAVs. Traditional large radar feet...

June 12th 2025

Amazon has received approval to begin UAV deliveries to customers following a key safety programme. The MK30 UAV has been specifically designed for airborne system...

Dossier

Dossier

Groupe Danielson Trident 100 TD2 turbodiesel

Just over 10 years ago, we featured Groupe Danielson’s Trident 100 TD2 engine, a 1.1 L, inline three-cylinder turbodiesel designed specifically for the UAV market. Since the company’s 2014 public launch of the Trident series of engines at AUVSI Xponential...

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Video systems

Jun 2025

Motor controllers

May 2025

Lidar

May 2025

Dossier

High Eye Airboxer

In the age of high-tech systems, where established OEMs and new start-ups alike compete to grab headlines with claims of what their products can do, it is easy to fall prey to the temptation to constantly replace parts and components with the latest...

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Connectors

May 2025

Swarming

May 2025

Launch & recovery

May 2025

Dossier

Alpha-Otto REV Force

We featured Michigan-based Strange Development in 2020 (see Issue 33), for its two-stroke, inline, two-cylinder, spark-ignited REVolution engine, integrating a rotary exhaust valve (REV) to leverage forced induction when adjusting its dynamic compression ratio...

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Embedded computing tech

May 2025

Sense and Simulation

Feb 2025

Ground control stations

Feb 2025

Dossier

LOXO Alpha & Digital Driver

As far as harsh proving grounds for autonomy go, Switzerland sets the bar high. A mountainous nation, many Swiss highways and other intercity roads pass through tunnels that blot out GNSS signals and create cramped, traffic-congested spaces that are deeply...

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Transponders

Jan 2025

UTM

Jan 2025

Antennas

Jan 2025

Dossier

Suter Industries

With regulations in the EU aimed at curbing and eventually eliminating internal combustion engines in road vehicles, the future of European engines – and particularly the expertise and innovative capacity around them – is likely to lie not amidst the automotive...

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Data Storage

Jan 2025

Battery technology

Jan 2025

Autopilots

Jan 2025

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ECUs

Jun 2025

Video systems

Jun 2025

Motor controllers

May 2025

Lidar

May 2025

Connectors

May 2025

Swarming

May 2025

Launch & recovery

May 2025

Embedded computing tech

May 2025

Sense and Simulation

Feb 2025

Ground control stations

Feb 2025

Transponders

Jan 2025

UTM

Jan 2025

Antennas

Jan 2025

Data Storage

Jan 2025

Special Reports

PS

UAS obsolescence and recycling

Although the rapid proliferation of small UASs for both consumer and professional use is a sign of a healthy and growing market, it would be a mistake to overlook the long-term implications of their obsolescence. Failure to manage these technologies...

In Operation

Event 38 E455

Experienced commercial UAV operator Phoenix Air Unmanned (PAU) announced in early January that it had used a single Event 38 E455 fixed-wing VTOL aircraft to complete a 320 mile pipeline patrol in just 7.6 flight hours for Shell Pipeline Company...

Show Report

Xponential Europe 2025 part 2

Although the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International’s first European Xponential show was a long time in the making – and represented a risky venture – all parties are now in full agreement that producing a European show...

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Battery technology

Jan 2025

Autopilots

Jan 2025

IMUS, gyros and accelometers

Jan 2025

Radio and telemetry

Jan 2025

Thermal imaging

Jan 2025

Real-time operating systems

Jan 2025

Cable harnesses

Feb 2025

Video encoding

Feb 2025

Servos

Feb 2025

Power management

Feb 2025

Fuel systems

Feb 2025

Additive manufacturing

Feb 2025

New Products

New Product

GNSS module cuts size

Septentrio has developed a series of high-accuracy positioning satellite navigation receivers that are the smallest available for their performance. The mosaic-g5 P1, mosaic-G5 P3 multi-frequency GNSS receivers and mosaic-G5 P3H GNSS...

New Product

Lidar for autonomous Caterpillar quarry trucks

Caterpillar is to integrate Lidar laser sensor technology from Luminar into its next generation autonomous trucks. The Luminar Lidar technology will be introduced in the Cat Command trucks for hauling, initially targeted for quarry and aggregate operations...

New Product

Folded zoom for UAV thermal camera

MKS Instruments has developed a lightweight, compact, continuous zoom lens designed specifically for thermal cameras on UAVs. The Ophir FoldIR 25-275 mm f/5.5 MWIR continuous zoom lens is designed for the latest cooled 15 μm VGA...

New Product

UAV navigation without GNSS

AgEagle Aerial Systems has developed a vision system for providing navigation without satellite signals. The eBee VISION software provides autonomous position updates with map referencing to provide precise navigation, even in GNSS-denied...

New Product

Encoders for AGV designs

Megatron has developed two encoders for large autonomous ground vehicles such as forklift trucks. The encoders not only detect the steering angle but also the speed of automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The kit encoders of the ETx25K series...

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Additive manufacturing

Feb 2025

Sonar systems

Mar 2025

Image sensors

Mar 2025

Solar power

Mar 2025