Vodafone Group’s New Technologies and Innovation team has been experimenting in the hills of northern Andalucía with mobile relays mounted on Elistair tethered drone systems, Continue reading
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Leonardo DRS Gets $42M US Army C-UAS Contract
Leonardo DRS has been awarded a production contract from the U.S. Army, under an urgent operational need, to develop a comprehensive counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capability to protect soldiers from enemy drones. This contract follows an earlier award for similar prototype capabilities, and is worth up to $42 million. Continue reading
General Atomics Reveals MQ-25 Drone Tanker Design
The four companies competing to build the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray aircraft carrier-based drone tanker gotten the final request for proposals from the service, though the exact specifics have yet to become public. At the same time, General Atomics has become the first of the firms to show both concept art and models of its complete entry, which the company says will be more than just a flying gas station. Continue reading
K-State Drones Develop Better Yielding Wheat Varieties
For the past three years, Jesse Poland, an associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and a team of researchers have worked in five countries to stay on top of wheat improvement and the most promising technology to help … drones. Continue reading
North Korea Trains Special Forces to Use Paragliders
South Korean defense officials believe North Korea is training special forces in the use of paragliders. The teams held drills in mid-September involving an attack on the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command in Seoul, according to South Korean defense officials quoted in local media. Continue reading
First Autonomous Flight for Drone with Event Camera
A few years ago, Davide Scaramuzza’s lab at the University of Zurich introduced us to the usefulness of a kind of dynamic vision sensor called an event camera. Event cameras are almost entirely unlike a normal sort of camera, but they’re ideal for small and fast moving robots when you care more about not running into things than you do about knowing exactly what those things are. Continue reading
GA-ASI Transitions to an All Gray Eagle ER Production Line for US Army
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) officially transitioned its production line from the MQ-1C Gray Eagle to its new long-range variant, the MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range following the completion of the last contracted MQ-1C aircraft. Continue reading
Low Cost Sense-and Avoid System Successful FAA Demo
Iris Automation, a San Francisco-based, venture-backed company, has made history by demonstrating the first long range, airborne sense and avoid system for industrial UAS as part of the FAA Pathfinder initiative. Although a dozen sense and avoid companies were invited, Iris Automation was the only airborne solution that participated. Continue reading