Uncrewed Systems Technology | Engineering Magazine

Platform One

May 12th 2025

A robot can cover diverse environments as adeptly as animals by changing form on the fly. The GOAT (Good Over All Terrains) developed at the CREATE lab at EPFL in Switzerland can spontaneously morph between a flat ‘rover’ shape and a sphere...

May 12th 2025

Vaisala Xweather and NIRA Dynamics have developed a dataset that combines weather forecasting and computer vision with real-time data. The integration draws on data vehicles...

May 12th 2025

Underwater vehicles have to manage a complex environment of currents, fighting against many flows as they attempt to stay on course. Peter Gunnarson and robot...

May 12th 2025

Tests in Japan have shown successful data connection with an autonomous high altitude platform station (HAPS) flying at an altitude of 20km for the HAPS...

May 12th 2025

Researchers in Florida have developed a hybrid system that combines uncrewed underwater, sea and air vehicles to monitor ice in the Arctic. Direct observation fractal...

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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Lidar

May 2025

Connectors

May 2025

Swarming

May 2025

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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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Launch & recovery

May 2025

Embedded computing tech

May 2025

Sense and Simulation

Feb 2025

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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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Ground control stations

Feb 2025

Transponders

Jan 2025

UTM

Jan 2025

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ACUA Ocean Pioneer-class H-USV

As an island nation, dependent on seafaring vessels for trade, defence and more, the UK’s traditions for innovative and robust shipbuilding date back centuries. Small wonder then that today, amid booming demand for automated ocean logistics...

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Antennas

Jan 2025

Data Storage

Jan 2025

Autopilots

Jan 2025

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UAVE 120 cc four-stroke

UAVE (pronounced ‘wave’) is a UAV manufacturer and operator that has been active for some time, during which it has accrued an eclectic range of missions and capabilities, flying many extreme environments and advanced payloads with its Prion UAVs. At the centre of all its works has been the DS120, a four-stroke, single-cylinder, spark-ignited engine, unique to this UK-based company and its aircraft. While UAVE does not sell this engine...

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Battery technology

Jan 2025

IMUS, gyros and accelometers

Jan 2025

Radio and telemetry

Jan 2025

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