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SeaTrac SP-48 USV

While environmental data is important for tracking and analysing climate change, it is also used in a range...

Dossier

ACC Thunder Wasp UAV

Across land and sea, industry is crying out for ever-safer and more efficient heavy-lifting capabilities. UAVs represent the promise of highly flexible and cost-effective logistics: an uncrewed heavy lifter for picking up anything and placing it anywhere. However, the most prolific UAVs...

Platform One

Robot care for orbiting satellites

The team at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Naval Centre for Space Technology (NCST)...

Platform One

Detecting real-time vehicle dynamics

The IMU provides reliable motion data for decision-making algorithms, and it can accurately detect...

Platform One

Layered approach and backup power supply essential

As autonomous driving systems advance, ensuring functional safety is critical...

Show Report

CES 2024

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) returned to Las Vegas, USA, for its 2024 edition...

In Operation

Blueflite

Under development by Blueflite, Slate and Cobalt are a pair of uncrewed, tiltrotor cargo vehicles...

Show Report

CUAV Expo 2024

Staged in Las Vegas on September 3-5, the Commercial UAV Expo put the spotlight on a wide range...

Dossier

Wave J-1

Pulsejet engines are, mechanically speaking, among the simplest combustion engines in existence. They typically consist of a short, stubby intake pipe, a longer exhaust pipe, a combustion chamber, an ECU, and some fuel valving and injection parts possibly present in modern versions.

In Operation

Swiss-Mile UGV

Of all types of bio-inspired uncrewed systems around the world, legged UGVs, and particularly quadrupeds...
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