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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...

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Seaber YUCO

As reported before in this magazine, shallow waters prove something of a sticking point for the otherwise widening reach of uncrewed systems...

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Clogworks Dark Matter

While the multi-copter is almost the default configuration for VTOL UAVs, those designed for professional use and BVLOS operations...

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Bayonet 350

As awareness of autonomous solutions grows among potential customer markets, some among them have begun to feel that UGVs have key benefits...

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New take on stability

Orthodrone is developing a multicopter technology it calls Pivot, which embodies the radical concept of stabilising the entire fuselage while the propulsion system moves around it to compensate for wind coming from any direction. The purpose of this departure from convention is...