The maritime passenger transport industry has been a hotbed for autonomy pilot projects for several years now, with legitimate causes beyond the mere profit motive of uncrewed systems manufacturers. For one, while many industries...

Around seven to 10 years ago, the aviation industry experienced rapid growth in the number of new eVTOL and eSTOL aircraft companies, each making bold claims over what their electric air vehicles could accomplish entirely on...

Uncrewed systems exist to make people’s lives easier, taking on dull, dirty, or dangerous work from humans – and it is hard to picture more dangerous work than military duties. So it is that over the last few years, the growing mélange of conflicts...

In the uncrewed space today, electric motors are essential to a growing majority of vehicles’ propulsion, whether as VTOL rotors, starter-generators or otherwise. However, movements and happenings in electric motor r&d are marked...

Although vast displays of military tech and its latest advancements abound the world over, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arguably remains the greatest such show on Earth, with the latest aircraft, ground vehicles, submersibles...

Direct air combat between UAVs is here to stay, and the Ukraine war is the primary crucible of its development. We are already seeing reconnaissance and attack UAVs intercepted by kamikaze drones that collide with them...

NVIDIA has shipped the Thor GPU chip at the heart of its Drive system for autonomous vehicles. The Drive AGX Thor kit is built on the Thor T5000 GPU with ARM Neoverse processor cores and the DriveOS7 software stack. The kit also includes...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle has visited previously unexplored areas of the ocean depths. The Orpheus benthic exploration AUV has been designed for deep-ocean exploration with a pair of landing skids that allows the vehicle...

Researchers in Japan have developed a new type of pressure sensor using fibres. Measuring pressure from the distortion of hydrogels or films using decreasing resistance when the fibre is compressed, requires sensitive measurement...

Researchers at MIT in the US have developed an adaptive control algorithm to help UAVs steer in gusty conditions. The control algorithm autonomously minimises deviations from the intended trajectory in the face of unpredictable forces...