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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...

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Robotique Occitane ROC-E AIV

Building a robot to work among people is one of the most complex challenges for uncrewed systems engineers today. On top of dealing with perennial UGV problems such as real-time obstacle avoidance and efficient path planning, one must design...

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ISS Aerospace Sensus L heavy-lift multicopter

Developed by ISS Aerospace in Chieveley, Berkshire, in England’s Thames Valley, the Sensus L is a modular heavy-lift multicopter built to handle demanding, data-intensive tasks in a variety of industries. Initially created to tackle oil giant Total’s METIS programme...

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RigiTech Eiger UAV

With the advent of uncrewed logistics solutions in air, and on land and sea, it pays to understand there are fundamental differences between what logistics operators need of their UAS, and what conventional UASs (designed most often for imaging-based work) bring to the table...

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FIXAR 025

The value of UAVs for mapping and inspection is directly linked to the efficiency with which they carry their sensor payloads. While this has been known for years, it is only recently that advances in modern design capabilities have enabled aerospace engineers to pursue alternatives...

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Robotnik RB-WATCHER

As uncrewed systems transition away from being little more than one-off science experiments and evolve into serious industrial tools that are as essential to industrial facility workers as a screwdriver, they are being designed with tougher reliability...

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IM Solutions Monodrone IM 3000 Mk2

Sebastien Manigot, operations manager at USV developer IM Solutions, describes the company’s new Monodrone IM 3000 Mk2 as a gap-filler in its range of vessels, which also includes 1.3, 1.8 and 7 m craft. The rigid-hull boat was developed at the request of some of the company’s customers...