Bidding Process for Piaggio Aerospace Formally Reopens

With a notice published on january 19 in a selected number of financial newspapers, and after receiving the relevant authorization from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, the Extraordinary Commissioner Vincenzo Nicastro officially reopened the bidding process for the sale of the business complexes of Piaggio Aero Industries and its subsidiary Piaggio Aviation, the two companies, currently under Extraordinary Administration, operating under the Piaggio Aerospace brand. Continue reading →

Kawasaki Unmanned Cargo System Combines Aircraft with Mobile Wheeled Robot

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has successfully completed proof-of-concept (PoC) testing for an unmanned cargo transport system. The system combines Kawasaki’s K-Racer-X1 prototype unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft and what is commonly described in the industry as an autonomous mobile robot, and which the company describes as a “delivery robot”. Continue reading →

Russia’s UWCA Developing Unmanned and Optional-Piloted Aircraft

The Russian company UWCA (Ural works of civil aviation) runs a program to create a family of unmanned/optional-piloted aerial based on existing manned fixed wing aircraft models. It is planned to use the new multipurpose aircraft LMS-901 Baikal and the agricultural aircraft T-500 as the base for creating its primary UAVs. UWCA engineers will equip these aircraft with communication and control systems. Continue reading →

AeroVironment Introduces Switchblade 300 Sensor to Shooter Kit

AeroVironment, Inc. has introduced the Switchblade 300 Sensor to Shooter Kit, a capability that enables operators to instantly transfer target coordinates from AeroVironment’s small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) – Puma 3 AE, Puma LE, Raven B or Wasp AE – to Switchblade 300 loitering missile systems. Continue reading →

Port of Hamburg to Introduce Automated Drones

HHLA Sky, a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, and the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) have agreed to a comprehensive technology partnership. Together, the companies want to make it possible to use automated drones within the Port of Hamburg.

This technology will assist in finding many promising solutions for logistical, sensory or coordinative processes.

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Apellix Gets Nondestructive Testing Drone Patent

Apellix has announced that has been granted its sixth full patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE HAVING AN ELEVATED SURFACE SENSOR, US 11,235,890 for its aerial robotic systems with robotic arms and end effectors that perform physical work or tasks, during flight, while in contact with an elevated surface. Continue reading →