Commercial
An Unmanned Systems Marketplace debuts this year at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), being held this week in Las Vegas. The marketplace highlights the burgeoning technology in drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other unmanned systems controlled by onboard computers or remotely from the ground. The Unmanned Systems
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Twenty journalists, policy and legal specialists and aerospace technology experts gathered at the Institute on Oct 22 to discuss challenges posed by the use of unmanned aircraft in news gathering. The event was co-sponsored by the Reuters Institute and the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at University
Business
TEKEVER publicly presented for the first time in Portugal the latest addition to its family of Unmanned Aerial Systems, the Tactical UAS AR5 Life Ray, at the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) Annual Convention, which took place on October 10th-12th, in Lisbon. TEKEVER sponsors the most
Commercial
The Outback Rescue Challenge, a competition for developers of unmanned aircraft systems, was held at Kingaroy in Queensland from Monday to Wednesday. An unmanned aircraft was able to find a dummy of a missing bushwalker with no human intervention in what CSIRO believes is a world-first for a non-
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The UAS Nordic Conference (UNC 12) is the largest Nordic UAS conference and provides in a single day full overview of what is going on in unmanned flight. It will take place on 13th November 2012 in Oslo Congress Centre in Youngstorget, near the central communications and accommodation at Oslo
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The highlight exhibits at China's Zhuhai Airshow, to be held in Zhuhai from November 13 to 18 will include a complete “Wing Loong” UA system by AVIC. Up to now, it has been confirmed that this airshow occupies a net area of 28,200 square meters for indoor
Testing
A humanitarian group called Ideate recently tested UAS’ viability as a real-world delivery vehicle in one of the harshest, most brutal environments imaginable — Burning Man. When disaster strikes a developing nation, aid workers face a “last kilometre” problem. Medicine and supplies can generally reach cities, but it’s difficult
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The highlight of this year’s Voestalpine Klangwolke Festival in Linz, Austria, was a choreographed air show with 49 quadcopters equipped with LEDs. Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ascending Technologies GmbH set a world record with the largest swarm of these “quadrocopters” outdoors at the same time. With spectacular lighting effects
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The 14th annual UAS Technical Analysis and Applications Center (TAAC) conference will beheld on December 4-6, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa at Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. The organisers have announced that Major General Michael C. Kostelnik (Ret.) [Assistant Commissioner, Office CBP of Air &
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On Sepember 27, DARPA will hold a workshop to flesh out the US government's cyberwar strategy called “Plan X.” The one-day workshop consists of a general access session for government employees and contractors, along with a Secret-clearance and above closed session to draw a roadmap for
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This year's UAS Royal Aeronautical Socity's Annual Conference continues the tradition of getting the people that shape industry both in the UK and abroad together to share their thoughts, their perspectives and their visions for one of the world’s fastest growing industries – Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
Events
Organized under the joint patronage of the French Ministry of Defence and the Secretary of State for the Sea, the upcoming EURONAVAL exhibition will be held in France at the Paris – Le Bourget exhibition centre from 22 to 26 October 2012. EURONAVAL is one of the most important events on