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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...

Focus on...

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...

Show Report

AUVSI Xponential part two

In the second part of our coverage of Xponential 2025 in Houston, we focus on new subsystems and components for a broad range of applications including electronic warfare, infrared sensing, navigation, communication, flight...

PS

Human-machine teaming

Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) in military operations is not new, but advances in AI and autonomous systems are forcing government and industry to rethink the relationship between people and machines. The kind of relationship they want...

Platform One

Three-layer UTM

A team in Italy has developed a three-layer uncrewed traffic management (UTM) system for uncrewed aircraft in critical airspace. The AcrOSS (Environment for Safe Operations of Remotely Piloted Aircraft) platform developed by a team at the University...

Platform One

VW details its self-driving ID.Buzz shuttle

Volkswagen has detailed the technology in its self-driving shuttle, based on the ID.Buzz platform. The ID.Buzz AD has been developed from the ground up for autonomous operation by VW’s autonomous driving subsidiary MOIA, and has been tested on public roads...