96 With a show floor hosting more than 500 exhibitors, Xponential’s 2025 show in Houston presented much for customers, developers, regulators and researchers of uncrewed systems to partake in. New advancements in resilient navigation, efficient propulsion, smart sensing and much more were displayed en masse for the world to see – a selection of which is presented here in the first of our twopart, post-show report on autonomy’s biggest event. UXV Technologies unveiled its newest sensor gimbal, the Optroxa GMB-450, developed as a successor to its GMB650 released in 2024, and scheduled to start shipping in September 2025. “We’ve managed to reduce the weight by 200 g, down to 450 g – hence the product name – while also upgrading to a newer, more precise and STANAG-compliant laser rangefinder and also integrating a laser pointer for target designation,” said Steven Friberg of UXV Technologies. “We’ve also upgraded its EO camera to a new Sony IMX900C, enabling higher resolution and better low-light performance with Global Shutter. We also have a new LWIR sensor, still utilising a LYNRED system per our strategic partnership with them.” The Danish company has also upgraded the internal electric motors to a new coreless, frameless custom design, giving much finer control with no torque cogging; this customised motor has also been the biggest source of weight reduction in the new gimbal design. Its I/Os have additionally been updated to include USB host-out so that data from external USB devices (such as Rory Jackson reports from another successful edition of the Xponential trade show and conference, this time in Texas’ Space City Drones in the Lone Star August/September 2025 | Uncrewed Systems Technology The 2025 edition of the AUVSI Xponential drew hundreds of companies and thousands of attendees to the manufacturing and space hub of Houston (Image courtesy of AUVSI)
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