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NXInnovation 100 Enviro

While people around the world now acknowledge the importance of environmental sustainability and helping the planet, it remains a sad and common sight for those living in city waterfronts to see litter strewn in urban waters...

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Internet of quantum UAVs?

While the spooky science of quantum mechanics underpins modern microelectronics, there’s a great deal of excitement and no doubt hype about the far less familiar field of quantum computing and its impact on comms, cryptography, sensing and other areas in which uncrewed systems are closely involved...

In Conversation

Jarno Puff

An early enthusiasm for computers and aviation, combined with talents that leaned more towards the practical than the academic, led Jarno Puff, now CTO of uncrewed subsystems developer LikeAbird, into an eclectic career that has encompassed industrial robotics, computing, UAV design and HMI development, emergency aviation and cloud computing...

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Protegimus Protection

If uncrewed systems are to make the most of the opportunities offered by the need to secure large and often complex sites, they will have to exploit automation as far as possible, ensure safety and cost-effectiveness, and stay on the right side of the regulators...

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Solar power

Many UAVs and USVs now come fitted with solar panels covering much of their surfaces. The interest in solar energy comes from more than it being a potentially limitless source of green power; for uncrewed systems it extends autonomy in a practical sense.

In Operation

Skypersonic Skycopter

Now that the presence of water ice on Mars has been confirmed, many organizations have committed themselves to establishing a human presence on the planet – NASA in particular...

Insight

UUVs

Many UUV platforms that are now well-known have been developed and supplied to civil, commercial and military markets since the 1990s...

Digest

SWL Robotics Tiburon

In the world of autonomous and intelligent systems, competencies developed in one type of vehicle can enable major breakthroughs for others. The marine sector in particular has benefited from innovations originally engineered elsewhere...

Dossier

Kodiak Driver

Road freight is vital to the US economy. The industry is worth more than $800 billion, and readers in the US can safely assume that two-thirds of the objects around them were transported at some point in a Class 8 truck such as the archetypical five-axle 18-wheeler...

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5G networks

While 5G phones are now widely available, and network operators are rolling out commercial 5G networks in urban areas around the world, the technology is also being developed with uncrewed systems in mind...