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UUVs

Generally, makers of autonomous UUVs get to enjoy a rather different market entry route compared with that of manufacturers of uncrewed systems for aerial and terrestrial applications. For example, drones must be built incredibly...

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Defence vehicles

Uncrewed systems exist to make people’s lives easier, taking on dull, dirty, or dangerous work from humans – and it is hard to picture more dangerous work than military duties. So it is that over the last few years, the growing mélange of conflicts...

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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...

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UAVs

While much experimentation and novel approaches were applied to crewed aerospace throughout the 20th century, including sleeve-valve engines, tilt-wing aircraft configurations and supersonic jets, most of professional aviation across industry...

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USVs

Although AI is booming both as an industry and as a buzzword worldwide, those among our readership understand that the true autonomy of an uncrewed vehicle depends on far more than just its intelligence. It is especially hard to consider...

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UGVs

As we have often heard over the years, it makes little sense for car makers to boast of a new model having the most powerful engine ever, or any other singular parameter or achievement, if they have forgotten to make the components work together at the system level....

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UUVs

Since the first AUVs were developed in US universities between the 1950s and 1970s, new UUV systems have been engineered and deployed in every ocean around the world, gathering priceless data for defence, offshore industry, scientific research and...

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Space vehicles

While many of the world’s newsrooms and social media platforms discuss plans for human colonies on the Moon and Mars, it must be remembered that an immense...