Platform One
October 12th 2026
October 12th 2026
October 12th 2026
October 12th 2026
October 12th 2026
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dossier
Dossier
EDAG CityBot
Those deeply involved in the automotive world will likely be familiar with EDAG Group, an international engineering services provider that has worked with major OEMs since the 1970s. Originally founded in Darmstadt (Germany) in 1969...
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GNSS
Aug 2026
Image sensors
Jun 2026
Servo actuators
Jun 2026
Dossier
AIE 40ACS Wankel rotary
We first covered the UK-based Wankel rotary manufacturer Advanced Innovative Engineering (AIE) a little over 10 years ago. That article (Issue 007, Apr/May 2016) featured a deep dive into AIE’s first UAV engine, the 225CS...
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Data / connections
Apr 2026
Propellers
May 2026
AI
Feb 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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Gimbals
Feb 2026
Sense and avoid
Feb 2026
Electric motors
Feb 2026
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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AI certification
Oct 2025
Composites
Feb 2026
Performance monitoring
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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Machine tools
Aug 2025
Video systems
Feb 2026
ECUs
Feb 2026
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Additive manufacturing
Aug 2026
GNSS
Aug 2026
Image sensors
Jun 2026
Servo actuators
Jun 2026
Data / connections
Apr 2026
Propellers
May 2026
AI
Feb 2026
Gimbals
Feb 2026
Sense and avoid
Feb 2026
Electric motors
Feb 2026
AI certification
Oct 2025
Composites
Feb 2026
Performance monitoring
Feb 2026
Machine tools
Aug 2025
Special Reports
In Conversation
In conversation: Dr Steve Bullock
He calls himself “a drone guy who doesn’t like drones sometimes.” This apparently contradicts everything about Dr Steve Bullock’s career. He built his first UAV in 2004, spent seven years on a PhD in autonomous air-to-air refuelling...
In Operation
RTsys NemoSens micro-AUV
While the rising tide of small, low-priced, modular AUVs has done much to widen accessibility of high-resolution ocean data, particularly among academics, researchers and environmentalists, people often forget that such micro-AUVs...
Show Report
CUAV 2026
The drone industry made its annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the Commercial UAV Expo, drawing the largest turnout in the show’s 12 year history and spotlighting a host of new products spanning airframes, propulsion, sensors...
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Video systems
Feb 2026
ECUs
Feb 2026
Lidar
Feb 2026
Motor controllers
Feb 2026
Swarming
Feb 2026
Connectors
Feb 2026
Embedded computing tech
Feb 2026
Launch & recovery
Feb 2026
Ground control stations
Feb 2026
Sense and Simulation
Feb 2026
UTM
Feb 2026
Transponders
Feb 2026
New Products
New Product
Improved transmission of camera data for large AUVs
Octobrite in Taiwan has developed a repeater to double the reach of GMSL2 camera links in large autonomous vehicles. The Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link (GMSL) is a specification developed by Analog Devices for camera links...
New Product
Taking the heat and pressure out of hydrogen storage
H2MOF in the US has developed materials that can be used to store hydrogen at ambient temperatures and pressures as low as 20 bar to power UAVs. While typical lithium-ion and lithium- polymer batteries can store up to 450 Wh/kg...
New Product
Chip-module system for reality capture
Lyte in the US has developed a chip and module that combines imaging and positional data into a single capture that can feed into a digital twin model of an autonomous vehicle. LyteVision combines RGB, 4D imaging...
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...
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Transponders
Feb 2026
Data Storage
Feb 2026
Antennas
Feb 2026
Battery technology
Feb 2026