sUAS News

Prominent Shenzhen drone manufacturer MMC introduces a cost-effective competitor to DJI’s M600: the F6 Plus, a multi-function drone with interchangeable mounts for varying industrial applications. The F6 Plus offers customizable features including: 200 payloads. Commercial customized payloads are configured to meet the needs of any mission. Plug-and-playuniversal mount system. Plug-and-play system provides an ideal platform for […]

DroneDeploy, the leading cloud-based drone software platform, announced today at the inaugural DroneDeploy Conference the launch of the App Market, the first drone industry app store. The new DroneDeploy App Market launched with more than 15 inaugural apps, and offers third-party developers access to the largest dataset in the world of drone 2D maps and […]

The SR800 StopRotor prototype has been designed as a modular test bed to easily interchange different wing profiles, rotor systems and engine options. Helicopter hover and fixed wing efficiency will be improved with a custom rotorwing design. An ‘off the shelf’ helicopter has been used in the current and previous aircraft prototypes. The test program will determine optimum […]

Last weekend I found myself pounding nails into the wall with a rock I found in my yard. With hammer missing and pictures needing to be hung, I had to make due. Fine, the nails were a bit bent, the wall marked, but it got the job done. I’d never dream, however, of using a […]

INEXA™ Control is an intuitive ground control station that lets you operate unmanned systems while staying compliant with emerging Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations. As the commercial variant of ICOMC2, INEXA™ Control is backed by Insitu’s comprehensive experience in professional unmanned aviation, making it the proven solution for safe and reliable operations. This is an […]

The sUSB Expo has released more content from it’s archive in the expert speakers series recorded at the Silicon Valley Drone Show. Within these archives you will find useful facts and information that can provide an edge in the drone industry, from lessons learned to developing technology these videos are a must watch. Sponsors are signing […]

Altus UAS International Limited moves to acquire InnoFlight Technology Limited NEW ZEALAND – Altus UAS International Limited “Altus” is very pleased to announce that it has begun the process to acquire Taiwan-based Innoflight Technology Limited. (“INF”). The deal will see Altus take on all of Innoflight’s assets with the resulting formation of a new combined […]

I feel a disturbance in the force, a tipping point coming along. Hobbyists are flying 360 camera rigs and posting the results. If you want to create this effect. You really don’t need much in the way of equipment and YouTube is allowing you to disseminate the content in VR to your chosen audience. All […]

Sentient ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) payload has successfully completed its capability demonstration with the UK’s Royal Navy at the recent Unmanned Warrior exercise. The first public demonstration of ViDAR in Europe. In front of senior representatives from the Royal Navy, British government, industry, and representatives of allied militaries from around the world, ViDAR consistently demonstrated its […]

A^3 by Airbus Group recently awarded a Flight Test and Range Services contract for “Project Vahana” to Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), and their partner, SOAR Oregon (SOAR). Project Vahana is an autonomous flying vehicle platform for individual passenger and cargo transport. It seeks to advance automated electric VTOL flight for the emerging on-demand mobility […]

CrowdOptic, SICdrone, and Suspect Technologies today announced a joint initiative to deliver unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from SICdrone, powered by CrowdOptic’s live-streaming capabilities and focal clustering analytics, along with facial recognition and obfuscation technology from Suspect Technologies, to clients in the first responder and public safety industries. Today’s announcement also follows the recent release of […]

Becomes a Vital Asset for Offshore Work North of Alaska Many weeks of slow and costly slogging through ice and fog might have been in store for a workboat fleet, sent a thousand miles from the nearest port to retrieve massive anchors from mooring sites spread across the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. But the lead […]

Wyvern, the global leader in manned and unmanned safety, quality and risk management has signed a partnership agreement with Acend, an innovative company that combines the power of big data, technology and analytics to deliver cost effective, pay as you fly insurance to drone operators. “Acend is on the cutting edge of on-demand insurance for […]

Aireon has announced the successful completion of a service delivery point Site Acceptance Test (SAT) with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), Ireland’s Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP). The test confirmed that IAA’s service delivery point, a critical component for receiving global air traffic surveillance data, can process Aireon’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) […]

Shenzhen-based robotics startup Makeblock released the new Airblock, a modular six-axis drone that transforms into various flying configurations, including hexacopter and hovercraft. Airblock combines the best of building blocks with flight physics and engineering to make each flying experience unique. Airblock consists of magnetic, modular parts that are easy to assemble and disassemble without tools. […]

QuestUAV Ltd and Beijing Topcon Business and Trade Co., Ltd (BTBT) are very pleased to announce their partnership for exclusive UAS supply, along with training and maintenance support for all QuestUAV airframes across the Chinese market. Beijing Topcon (BTBT), one of the region’s foremost surgical and medical equipment providers, has also spent the last few […]

The Aperture is a new professional 800mm wheelbase hexacopter drone designed for aerial photography. It features all that you want in a large camera drone like excellent stability, heavy lift capabilities, long-endurance, retractable landing arms allowing it to fly in most weather conditions. The retractable landing arms are an excellent feature for an aerial photography drone […]

Hawaii’s hero of the hour Chris Ballard joins in from Tasmania and talks Freedom Class Racing and Parrot Disco wings at the Worlds DIY cruise missile man Bruce Simpson tells us wings are a problem, drone rules in New Zealand and DSMX2 drone hacking. Along for the ride, Patrick Egan, Sean Wendland, Erich Freymann, Stuart Townley […]

DJI’s latest generation of the NAZA series, the N3 flight controller, is tailor-made for a multitude of hobbyist and industrial applications. Its robust flight control algorithm is ideal for controlling a broad range of industrial and DIY multirotor aircraft, providing professional stability. The N3 flight controller is compatible with professional remote controllers and receivers, DJI’s […]

Leveraging our renowned sUAS platform, SaaS offerings and industry expertise, Aeryon enables customers to create scalable UAS inspection and emergency response solutions. With 10 years of in-field experience and tens of thousands of flight hours, Aeryon is pleased to announce the availability of end-to-end enterprise solutions for its energy and utility customers. Based on deep […]

C-Astral Aerospace and Alta Devices today announced that Alta’s world record-breaking solar technology will be used to significantly extend the endurance for the most sophisticated of C-Astral’s next generation unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Details of the agreement are not being disclosed. C-Astral’s latest system, called the LRS (long range solar), can fly at least two […]

A very clever way to trigger a release to drop bait. Just use the LED on-off function. I wonder if drone fishing will become a thing. It certainly changes the odds. Retailing for $144.99 the unit is tidy and easy to install. An Achilles heel that I see for this device is that it relies on DJI […]

Octopus ISR Systems (Europe) and SkyIMD (USA) signed a strategic partnership agreement. From now on, SkyIMD will be offering the Epsilon range of gimbals integrated into their FAA/EASA/ANAC certified pods for manned aviation customers; they will also distribute Octopus ISR Systems products and provide customer support for unmanned industry customers within the US. With Octopus […]

The use of drones in safety investigations has the potential to significantly reduce costs and improve investigator safety. The ATSB’s drone project manager, Aaron Holman, says the organisation has been monitoring the emerging technology since 2012. “The technology has reached a point where we believe it can be usefully deployed to accident sites to assist […]

Bill Carey New arrivals to the world of commercial drones may trace its start to the August 2016 effective date of the FAA’s Part 107 regulation for commercial small unmanned aircraft systems or perhaps to the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, which expedited their entry into the national airspace system. The industry’s old […]

Verizon put new drone technology into action in October with three different use cases of the unmanned aerial systems or UAS to enhance network performance and reliability. Here is a closer look at the network activities and a comparison of the types of drones used. Delivering 4G LTE service from the air An unmanned aircraft […]

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for both military and commercial applications, today announced the receipt of a contract from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence on October 14 for small UAS, upgrades and support services totaling $10,321,375. Delivery is anticipated within six months. The contract encompasses AeroVironment’s entire family […]

Job description Responsibilities To generate and increase the number of business customers and to achieve and exceed sales targets To define and develop corporate sales plan including providing market intelligence Able to develop solid, long-term professional relationships with prospects and key partners with a short time Conduct […]

Copter-3.4 has been released for both multicopters and traditional helicopters and is available for download from the Mission Planner, QGroundControl, AP Planner2 and likely other ground stations as well. This is a very major release with dozens of new features that are listed in the Release Notes5 but also the main items are listed below. […]

Sky-Futures and Flyability have partnered up to bring to market a fully integrated solution for drone-based industrial inspection. The Flyability Elios is the groundbreaking collision-tolerant drone allowing access to complex and confined spaces where manned entry is not possible or desirable. Expanse is the world leading software for end-to-end management of drone-based industrial inspection data. […]

Embention keeps continuously developing its products improving day by day their capabilities and performance. On this occasion, we announce the new design of NM& M400 multirotor drone. This multirotor drone is available in both standard and tethered versions. Being able to develop all kind of activities: control and conservation of wildlife and flora, firefighting, precision […]

Epoc Unmanned is excited to bring an update to the community regarding the OBS ground control surveying system. First we would like to thank everyone for their support and feedback regarding the system. You have spoken and even though it’s clear you LOVE the OBS concept we will continue to listen to your suggestions and […]

Karma is hitting the street (see what I did there) and videos are starting to be uploaded. So a few that caught my eye. The first a tear down which will be monster useful for folks and perhaps become one of the most popular Karma videos around. Well done Nathan Shaw Now from this, we deduce […]

Geobit is proud to present DROBIT. A ppk GNSS L1/L2 solution for drones built for mapping. It is very small and light yet capable. With built-in IMU allowing accurate calculation of the offset between the camera nodal point and the antenna phase center by considering the frame attitude and gimbal dynamics. Drobit does not interact […]

The first Santa for this year comes from established model aircraft vendors E-Flite. Instantly folks are going to associate this with and RC toy. Let me remind those people that PrecisionHawk have made a very tidy business on the back of the Eflite Apprentice. The Lancaster might be different now, but its still in the […]

Drone Co-Habitation Services, LLC (DCS), supported by teammate Frequentis-USA (who provided our Ground UTM Software Client, Location Information Service (LIS), and provided technical support), just completed successful demonstration flights as part of NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Research. These UAS-Drone Trials accomplished under Extended Visual Line of Sight (EVLOS) rules…which for our Pilot-in-Command […]

Sky-Futures, the leader in the drone-based industrial inspection market is making their in-house software called Expanse commercially available. Expanse, the drone-based industrial inspection platform, significantly enhances the way organisations view, understand and manage their assets. Having already been used by Sky-Futures clients for the last 12 months, the software has been built, designed and focused […]

Finally on the market: Homogeneous stitching for thermal mapping TeAx Technology, an innovative drone tech company focusing also on thermal drone solutions, is now providing a smart way of stitching thermal images. Why this has been an issue so far – explained and made transparent in the following. The problem: Shutter events to perform flat-field-correction […]

Sentera, LLC brings game-changing aerial data-capture capabilities to the industry with the revolutionary Omni™ Quad-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The Omni naturally partners with a gimbaled Sentera Double 4K Sensor – creating an easy-to-use, precise UAV package for the Inspection, Survey and Mapping, and Agriculture industries. Empowering users to collect precise data from obscure angles, […]

VStar Systems Inc., a privately held aerospace and defense systems company, announced the launch of a modular Signal Intelligence Sensor Suite for use on small to large aircraft, including UAV’s. The product family, jointly named MA-X Modular Airborne Signal Intelligence System, is a scalable solution designed to provide critical intelligence at a more affordable price […]

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems , a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) business, announced today the completion of its inaugural customer demonstration of the Aerosonde™ HQ. The Aerosonde HQ combines the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities of a multi-rotor platform with the efficiency and speed of the Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) fixed-wing aircraft. The […]

Job description Responsibilities: • Formulate holistic marketing strategy that is aligned with HQ, but also localized, to promote the DJI brand and products in Hong Kong • Identify and execute integrated marketing programs that align with short- and long-term business needs which may include customer engagement campaigns, seasonal promotions, partnership events, etc. • Plan and […]

Aurora Flight Sciences has joined a network of businesses, organizations and institutions dedicated to enhancing economic prosperity in the Appalachian region. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today during a presentation at Mountain Empire Community College (MECC) significant federal investments funded through the Obama administration’s Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce […]

Eos Systems Inc. has introduced new photogrammetry software optimized specifically for photographs taken with drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The new PhotoModeler UAS 2016 software creates 3D models, measurements, and maps from photographs taken with ordinary cameras built-in or mounted on drones. It includes numerous features for optimized operation with drone photos including post […]

Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY), a leading children’s entertainment company, and DR1 Racing, the premiere global drone racing series, are proud to announce a new partnership involving the legendary Air Hogs brand of remote control vehicles. The partnership will see Air Hogs presence in all three of the DR1 Racing series in the 2016 and 2017 […]

One of those, I’m not sure about this stories. No time to drive to your meeting, be in two places at once! An outstanding video! Make sure you watch it. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s (KAIST) human-drone interaction lab have designed an avatar drone, a flyable humanoid for telepresence. Avatar […]

Through an EPIC Freedom of Information Act request, EPIC obtained documents revealing that the FAA never finished a drone privacy report required by Congress. The Appropriations Act of 2014, which provided funding for the agency, required the FAA to inform Congress on “how the FAA can address the impact of widespread use of [drones] on […]