Unmanned Aerial Systems / Drones

LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions collaborated with Offshore Aviation for a successful 90 minute flight trial of the Dragonfly quadcopter.

WiBotic launches new passively cooled onboard charger and two transmitters that use the latest GaN technology for maximum efficiency

Honeywell and Infinidome announce a joint solution that will combine advanced sensors and ultra-strong GPS resilience technology to protect signals used by a wide array of vehicles

MIT developed a high-speed flight-planning algorithm that combines simulations and experiments, in a way that minimizes the number of experiments required to identify fast and safe flight paths.

DroneDeploy said the Rocos acquisition will allow its customers to deploy and coordinate both aerial and ground robots on their job sites.

Salt Lake City-based Teal Drones, founded in 2014, makes aerial drones and related technologies for commercial and government applications.

Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime powered humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter.

Zipline said the new funding raises the company’s valuation to $2.75 billion.

American Robotics announce a partnership that fulfills the FAA requirements for the safe operation of drones beyond the line of sight.

American Robotics’ commercial drone system will be integrated into Ondas’ FullMAX platform, a standards-based networking solution designed to enable enhanced data communications for field operations.

NASA is eager to share the technical details of its accomplishments, unlike the typical commercial robotics venture trying to outpace its competitors.

Perseverance Rover captured audio of the Ingenuity flying on Mars, adding another new dimension to the historic Mars 2020 Mission.

The race was on – safely – for more than 50,000 spectators Saturday at the 147th Kentucky Derby in part thanks to Pittsburgh-based AERAS. The company used its patented charged-electrostatic drone technology to sanitize Churchill Downs against COVID-19. This in part helped allow fans to return to the oldest sporting event in the United States.…

Ingenuity could soon embark on a new operation, exploring how aerial scouting could benefit future exploration of Mars and other worlds.

Exyn drones are now capable of free-flight exploration of highly complex spaces like mines with no necessity for fallback-ready human operators. This capability opens up new markets including search and rescue operations.

Ingenuity flew faster and farther than any tests that took place here on Earth.

Ingenuity Helicopter became the first aircraft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.

Update will modify the process by which two flight controllers boot up, allowing the hardware and software to safely transition to the flight state.

During a high-speed test of the rotors, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration.

NASA is one step closer to achieving the first flight on another planet as the Ingenuity Helicopter touched down on Mars over the weekend.

NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the launch of Ingenuity on Mars . But before that happens, it must hit a series of milestones.

Many parcel delivery drones of the future are expected to handle packages weighing five pounds or less, a restriction that would allow small, standardized UAVs to handle a large percentage of the deliveries now done by ground vehicles. But will that relegate heavier packages to slower delivery by conventional trucks and vans? A research team…