Platform One

August 10th 2026

A consortium in the UK has developed a positioning system for safer autonomous UAV landing on ships. The system developed by Omnisense and 42 Technology (42T) uses a ground-based ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning technology...

August 10th 2026

Researchers in the US are testing a new type of propeller for the next-generation Mars helicopter. The tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in environmental...

August 10th 2026

Integration of the autonomous software stack with vehicle dynamics is key for mining equipment. Autonomy cannot be treated as a software layer added on vehicle...

August 10th 2026

Researchers in the US have created a new magnetic antenna to boost underwater communications. BlueME is a compact magnetoelectric (ME) antenna system designed specifically communication...

August 10th 2026

A reference platform aims to accelerate the development of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). The platform has been developed by eInfoChips, the engineering services subsidiary components...

Dossier

Dossier

Alpha Unmanned Systems B100HF heavy fuel engine

It was around eight years ago, in UNC-20 (Jun/Jul 2018), that we unpacked the Alpha 800 (or A800) helicopter UAV from Alpha Unmanned Systems. Since then, the Spanish company has not only gone on to develop that aircraft into...

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Additive manufacturing

Aug 2026

Servo actuators

Jun 2026

Image sensors

Jun 2026

Dossier

Certo Aerospace Capstone VTOL UAV

Vertical lift stands out as an especially interesting technical arena for competitions between differing uncrewed aircraft configurations, with many impending examples such as the UK government’s Project NYX...

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Propellers

May 2026

Data / connections

Apr 2026

Gimbals

Feb 2026

Dossier

FCT Sweden Lamina fuel cell

The world of uncrewed systems is, in many ways, a critical beachhead market for hydrogen power solutions. Despite their detractors, we have unpacked major success stories such as Canada’s Cellula Robotics and Zepher Flight Labs...

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AI

Feb 2026

Sense and avoid

Feb 2026

Electric motors

Feb 2026

Dossier

BushRanger UAV

All around the world, rangers responsible for protecting vulnerable wildlife and ecosystems are being murdered by those who profit from poaching, with one charity estimating that as many as 150 rangers annually are killed in the line of duty...

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AI certification

Oct 2025

Composites

Feb 2026

Machine tools

Aug 2025

Dossier

H3X HPDG-30 hybrid

The company H3X is an aerospace-focused e-powertrain developer and manufacturer, which was founded in 2020 primarily out of a desire to take on a challenge set (unofficially) by the US’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in 2019...

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Performance monitoring

Feb 2026

ECUs

Feb 2026

Video systems

Feb 2026

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GNSS

Aug 2026

Additive manufacturing

Aug 2026

Servo actuators

Jun 2026

Image sensors

Jun 2026

Propellers

May 2026

Data / connections

Apr 2026

Gimbals

Feb 2026

AI

Feb 2026

Sense and avoid

Feb 2026

Electric motors

Feb 2026

AI certification

Oct 2025

Composites

Feb 2026

Machine tools

Aug 2025

Performance monitoring

Feb 2026

Special Reports

PS

Torpedo threats to maritime drones

Uncrewed vehicles are now mainstream weapon systems universally regarded as essential both to deploy and to counter in fields of conflict. So far, most effort has been directed at bringing down UAVs, but now maritime drones...

In Operation

SYOS Aerospace’s SM USV family

Increasingly, developers of uncrewed systems are creating machines able to cooperate in groups to complete complex missions in contested environments. “Operators need autonomous systems that work not as isolated platforms...

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AUVSI XPONENTIAL US 2026 part one

Every year, the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Xponential US event brings together record numbers of professionals and companies zeroed-in on all things concerning autonomous...

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ECUs

Feb 2026

Video systems

Feb 2026

Motor controllers

Feb 2026

Lidar

Feb 2026

Connectors

Feb 2026

Swarming

Feb 2026

Embedded computing tech

Feb 2026

Launch & recovery

Feb 2026

Sense and Simulation

Feb 2026

Ground control stations

Feb 2026

Transponders

Feb 2026

UTM

Feb 2026

New Products

New Product

Enhanced VLA model to support robotaxi development

NVIDIA has developed a set of AI models and tools for Level 4 robotaxis. Alpamayo 2 Super is an open Vision–Language–Action (VLA) model with 32 billion parameters that reasons, plans and acts across the full driving stack for safer...

New Product

IR sensor for counter-UAV systems

Lynred in France has developed a high-definition, cooled, infrared (IR) sensor that works across the whole medium wave (MW) band for counter UAV systems. The DRACO MW SL sensor combines SXGA 1280 x 1024 resolution at 60 Hz...

New Product

AUV for long-duration subsurface missions

Cellula Robotics has demonstrated its Envoy Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, capable of travelling for over 2000 km using a hydrogen fuel cell. The 1.5 kW fuel cell was developed with Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen using its Mystic 2000...

New Product

High-speed interface for integrating AI chips

ZF and SiliconAuto have developed an interface chip with companion microcontroller for automated driving. The specialised I/O chip performs data acquisition and preprocessing in real time for automated driving and is tightly...

New Product

In-line architecture transforms fuel flow measurement

Sentronics has launched its range of next-generation fluid flow sensors, the RealFlow D‑Series, incorporating several innovations previously unseen in flow sensor products and of particular benefit to precise fuel monitoring...

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UTM

Feb 2026

Data Storage

Feb 2026

Antennas

Feb 2026

Autopilots

Feb 2026