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Show Report

CUAV Expo Americas 2022

After three years of being kept away by the coronavirus pandemic, Uncrewed Systems Technology returned to Las Vegas for the Commercial UAV Expo Americas...

Insight

Space vehicles

While many of the world’s newsrooms and social media platforms discuss plans for human colonies on the Moon and Mars, it must be remembered that an immense...

Digest

Seaber YUCO

As reported before in this magazine, shallow waters prove something of a sticking point for the otherwise widening reach of uncrewed systems...

Focus on...

Video systems

The technology of vision systems in the uncrewed sector is facing several competing demands. In some cases, it is for low latency, responsive video streams from multiple cameras to allow a remote operator to drive the platform safely, whether in the middle of the ocean or on the surface of Mars.

Dossier

IAC AV-21

Competitive motorsport has, for over a century, motivated countless innovations that have filtered through to safer, more comfortable and more efficient automotive solutions...

Platform One

3D-printed rotor actuator

Flying-Cam has used 3D printing to develop a tail rotor actuator for its latest UAV. The actuator is built using a powder bed fusion (PBF) process with the Windform XT 2.0 carbon fibre-reinforced composite from CRP Technology. This has been used for the Discovery single rotor uncrewed helicopter, which has a 75 kg MTOW to carry payloads...

Platform One

Modular solution to conversion

ABD Solutions has developed a modular platform that can turn existing mining, agricultural and military vehicles into driverless ones. Indigo Drive is a complete autonomy solution that converts a vehicle to driverless operation...

PS

Visual navigation

Along with many other animals, we humans are visual creatures who rely heavily on the sense of sight to find our way through complex, often hazardous environments – so much so that visual impairments...