3D printing trials of unmanned aircraft at the University of Sheffield broaden the possibilities for this emergent technology Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) a... Read more
RMIT University researchers in Melbourne, Australia, are developing bio-inspired unmanned aircraft capable of soaring like birds, boosting energy efficiency and endurance. In collaboration w... Read more
Amazon’s Prime Air announcement last week brought concerns about the use of commercial drones to the fore, but one programmer may have just muddied the waters even more. Notable hacker... Read more
It functions a bit like a satellite, except substantially cheaper and much more versatile. The largest robot in the AUVSI expo hall last week belonged to Titan Aerospace. It was a model of t... Read more
Boeing could work out a contracting situation in which the Pentagon asks Boeing to run specific operations with its device Unmanned systems are commonplace in the world of aviation. But it... Read more
The Hydra program also will seek to develop and demonstrate not only the unmanned vehicle mothership, but also examples of the UAVs and UUVs that could be carried into battle covertly. Unman... Read more
So cheap and easy to manufacture that they’ll literally be disposable, single use items. The term “UAV” generally leads us to think about expensive, high-tech military dron... Read more
The autonomous flying of multiple UAVs in formation is an important research area in the aerospace field. Professor DUAN Haibin and his group members (LUO Qinan and YU Yaxiang) from the Scie... Read more
NASA’s communications experts have begun flight testing a prototype radio as part of the agency’s contributions toward fully integrating civil and commercial Unmanned Aircraft Sy... Read more
UAV’s, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, tend to face two issues – not being able to stay on station for long periods, and carrying enough of a payload to be useful. Nevada outfit Airship Manufac... Read more
Kamran Mohseni envisions a day when the unmanned vehicles in his laboratory at the University of Florida will swarm over, under and through hurricanes to help predict the strength and path o... Read more
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory flew their fuel cell powered Ion Tiger UAV for 48 hours and 1 minute on April 16-18 by using liquid hydrogen fuel in a new, NRL-developed, c... Read more
A team of masters students from the Queen Mary, University of London is hoping to develop the world’s first photovoltaic multi-copter. Dubbed “Solarcopter,” the team’s crea... Read more