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Swinburne's Robotic Innovations to be Displayed at Student Project Showcase

A surveillance drone that can take a camera into places people can't go such as fire and emergency sites, and a robotic device that reacts to messages from your brain, are among the innovations of Swinburne University of Technology's brightest students for 2013.

28 Nov 2013

LTAS Enters Distribution Agreement with ADS for Blimp in a Box Aerostat Systems

Lighter Than Air Systems Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air aerostats and unmanned aerial systems, has entered into a distributor agreement with U.S. Government prime contractor ADS, Inc. to distribute Blimp in a Box™ aerostat systems ("BiB") and related sustainment equipment.

28 Nov 2013

Moon Express Software Successful in Free Flight Test of NASA's ‘Mighty Eagle’ Prototype Robotic Lander

Moon Express, a commercial lunar enterprise, announces a successful free flight test of its lunar lander software on NASA's "Mighty Eagle" prototype robotic lander.

27 Nov 2013

Northrop Grumman Delivered Second MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter to the U.S. Navy

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the second MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter to the U.S. Navy after completing final assembly at the company's unmanned systems center in Moss Point, Miss.

26 Nov 2013

AAC Successfully Demonstrates Mine-Hunting Capabilities During 2013 FLEX Unmanned Systems Campaign

Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC), a joint venture between DRS Technologies and Thales, successfully demonstrated advanced mine-hunting capabilities with the US Navy during the 2013 Fleet Experimentation (FLEX) Unmanned Systems (UxS) Campaign. By towing the unmanned high resolution synthetic aperture sonar (T-SAS), the system detected all exercise mines with increased area clearance rates.

22 Nov 2013

Robotic Drone to Study Biodiverse Ecosystems in Peru’s Tropical Cloud Forest

As U.N. climate talks continue in Warsaw, soon a flying, insect-like robot developed by scientists at Wake Forest University will give an unprecedented look at Peru’s tropical cloud forest, one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems and a key indicator of global climate change.

22 Nov 2013

Payload Orbital Delivery System for DARPA Phoenix Mission to be Developed by MDA

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company"), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has been authorized to proceed with development of a Payload Orbital Delivery system (POD) for the DARPA Phoenix mission. The expected contract value for full development of the flight system is US$6 million.

22 Nov 2013

Engineers Run Tests to Check Causes of Voltage Change on Mars Rover Curiosity

Science observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have been suspended for a few days while engineers run tests to check possible causes of a voltage change detected on Nov. 17.

22 Nov 2013

Report Analyses US DoD Unmanned Aerial Systems Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Analysis of the US DoD Unmanned Aerial Systems Market" report to their offering.

22 Nov 2013

NRL Reliant AUV Completes Record Setting Endurance Travel Mission

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Acoustics Division, with Bluefin Robotics, executed a record setting 507 kilometer (315 mile), long-endurance autonomy research mission using its heavyweight-class mine countermeasures autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), Reliant.

21 Nov 2013