AI
Since 2025, a project team at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences has been exploring and teaching how artificial intelligence can enhance drone technology. Their work has resulted in a bilingual handbook that provides technical foundations and building instructions for AI-powered drones.
Propulsion
Rather than using bulky, mechanically complex actuators, the new thrust system delivers improved maneuverability through a lightweight aerodynamic nozzle that contains no moving parts.
Mapping & Surveying
Autonomous long-endurance fixed-wing aerial vehicles will become a powerful tool for gathering high-quality data for large-scale environment monitoring applications. This will create more robust, complete and reliable databases, essential for hazard mapping and mitigation measure planning.
Propulsion
The agreement combines Parallel Flight’s high‑performance hybrid-electric Firefly UAS architecture with Alpha’s expertise in heavy-fuel engines for helicopter UAVs, in support of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Research
To avoid shortages of critical components for LiDAR systems, any government must ensure a reliable supply chain, preventing shortages of essential inputs for these systems, such as rare minerals, rare earth elements or ores.
Research
DIU expects to fund prototypes of multiple airborne platforms for magnetic navigation, including one that scans the ocean surface at 2,000 ft.
Research
Airbus Research has just announced a 3.2M€ (USD 3.8M) project to develop solutions based on UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) to make agriculture more efficient and adapted to climate change.
Research
The global commercial UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) market size was USD 82.00 billion in 2024, estimated at USD 128.95 billion in 2025, and is expected to reach around USD 7,646.37 billion by 2034, expanding at a CAGR of 57.4% from 2025 to 2034. Commercial unmanned
Research
A surge in GPS jamming attacks in drone warfare has inspired Australian researchers to develop a celestial navigation system that uses visual data from stars rather than relying on the global positioning system. Remote sensing engineers from the University of South Australia have combined celestial navigation with vision-based technology to
Research
The global Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) Market was valued at USD 2648.7 Million in 2023 and is anticipated to reach USD 4546.1 Million by 2030, witnessing a CAGR of 7.9% during the forecast period 2024-2030. The Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) market is witnessing significant growth,
Research
– Advanced Navigation, an Australian supplier of autonomous systems and navigation technologies, along with MBDA, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a resilient navigation system integrating MBDA’s NILEQ absolute positioning technology.Suitable for the modern era, the co-developed solution will provide resilient absolute positioning for a multitude
Testing
Scientists are testing a drone fitted with its own "nervous system" which they claim can keep it operating in the sky for longer. It was created by experts at the University of Southampton who say the system, made of optical fibers, reduces the frequency it needs to land