Platform One

August 14th 2025

A team in Italy has developed a three-layer uncrewed traffic management (UTM) system for uncrewed aircraft in critical airspace. The AcrOSS (Environment for Safe Operations of Remotely Piloted Aircraft) platform developed by a team at the University...

August 14th 2025

Volkswagen has detailed the technology in its self-driving shuttle, based on the ID.Buzz platform. The ID.Buzz AD has been developed from the ground up roads...

August 14th 2025

University engineers in China have developed an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) that emulates the flight capabilities of birds more closely than ever before. The exceeding...

August 14th 2025

University teams in the US have developed a laser sensor device that is smaller than a penny for improved Lidar systems in self-driving cars. delicate...

August 14th 2025

Researchers in Europe have developed a decentralised auction-based system for the energy management of swarms of delivery uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) that has shown Groß...

Dossier

Dossier

NEX Power 15 kW GenSet gas micro-generator

Located in the UK industrial powerhouse of Milton Keynes, NEX Power Ltd., formerly known as Samad Power, is a developer of gas microturbine-based technologies. The company had its genesis at Cranfield University (the birthplace of many...

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Performance monitoring

Aug 2025

ECUs

Jul 2025

Video systems

Jul 2025

Dossier

Tekever AR3

There is nothing like a modern high-intensity conflict for shaping military technologies, and the war in Ukraine has impacted uncrewed systems like no other. Tekever’s AR3 Evolution – the latest iteration of the Portuguese company’s 25 kg...

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Lidar

May 2025

Motor controllers

May 2025

Swarming

May 2025

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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Connectors

May 2025

Launch & recovery

May 2025

Embedded computing tech

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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Sense and Simulation

Feb 2025

Ground control stations

Feb 2025

Transponders

Jan 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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UTM

Jan 2025

Antennas

Jan 2025

Data Storage

Jan 2025

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Machine tools

Aug 2025

Performance monitoring

Aug 2025

ECUs

Jul 2025

Video systems

Jul 2025

Lidar

May 2025

Motor controllers

May 2025

Swarming

May 2025

Connectors

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

Special Reports

PS

Uncrewed creativity?

Uncrewed vehicles have reached a curious frontier in their evolution, one in which autonomy begins to resemble something startlingly close to creativity. As AI continues to reshape their capabilities, it is natural to consider whether autonomous...

Show Report

AUVSI Xponential part one

With a show floor hosting more than 500 exhibitors, Xponential’s 2025 show in Houston presented much for customers, developers, regulators and researchers of uncrewed systems to partake in. New advancements in resilient navigation...

Insight

UAVs

While much experimentation and novel approaches were applied to crewed aerospace throughout the 20th century, including sleeve-valve engines, tilt-wing aircraft configurations and supersonic jets, most of professional aviation across industry...

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Antennas

Jan 2025

Data Storage

Jan 2025

Autopilots

Jan 2025

Battery technology

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

Power management

Feb 2025

Servos

Feb 2025

New Products

New Product

Modular approach to multi-function controls

Steatite has developed a modular concept for multi-function consoles (MFCs), aimed at showcasing their systems engineering capability. It brings together various competencies of design, development and qualification...

New Product

Chip architecture for autonomous driving

Athos Silicon has started the next phase of development for its ‘multiple system on chip’ (mSoC) controller in a Level 4 autonomous test vehicle. The vehicle is equipped with a complete set of Lidar, radar and camera systems, enabling live testing...

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...

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

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...

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Servos

Feb 2025

Additive manufacturing

Feb 2025

Fuel systems

Feb 2025

Image sensors

Mar 2025