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New Products

Industrial joystick for UAV and UGV control stations

Ruffy Controls has unveiled the TS3 Series, a new miniature industrial joystick designed for uncrewed aerial and ground vehicle control stations. As the smallest product in the company’s lineup, the TS3 Series is engineered to...

In Conversation

In conversation: Dr Beatriz Canamary

As well as being gateways to global commerce and economic growth, ports stand as some of the world’s most vibrant intersections of critical domains, influenced by overlapping circles of regulators, international policymakers...

Dossier

TREEZE Astreze Leo P6 Robobus

The Republic of Korea is often cited as the most technologically advanced nation on Earth. Its population holds one of the largest concentrations of high-speed internet users globally, and its major corporate tech names such as Samsung, Hyundai...

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AI certification

The latest developments in AI are putting more  focus on how to enable transparency, validation and certification of autonomous systems operating in the air, on the ground and at sea. While AI is widely seen as a ‘black box’ with a series of inputs...

Digest

Hecto Drone HD-606

Back in 2017, the team behind Denmark-based Hecto Drone was performing aerial mapping services using COTS drones and equipment – and rapidly finding such work to be both laborious and unpleasant, as CEO Andreas Siggaard recounts...

Show Report

Commercial UAV Expo 2025

Held at the Caesar’s Forum exhibition centre in Las Vegas on September 2–4, the Commercial UAV Expo presented a cornucopia of enabling technologies for uncrewed vehicle development and operation. These included...

Dossier

Wankel Aviation 350 & 500 cc rotary engines

Wankel Aviation is a German company based in the town of Cottbus, Brandenburg, founded in 2022 as a subsidiary of (and sharing locations with) Wankel SuperTec, which was founded in 2003. As of writing, Wankel Aviation has just eight...

In Operation

Subdron vessel damage assessments

For six days in March 2021, the 400 m long container vessel Ever Given sat grounded in the Suez Canal. The majority of related news coverage delved busily into reasons for the grounding, the steps being taken to resolve it and its various consequences...

Insight

Uncrewed space vehicles

Uncrewed systems have long paved the way for humanity’s understanding of our Solar System and our universe, from Sputnik’s launch in 1957 to the Voyager probes now exploring interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere...

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Composites

The world of composites, much like the rest of the world, is undergoing particular upheaval with respect to its relationship with uncrewed systems. Conflicts around the planet have awoken defence forces everywhere to the revolutionary...

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