A wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company and the developer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), Insitu announced that the ScanEagle UAS was successful in transmitting real-time video to the Canadian Forces during a recent large-scale military exercise, Operation Nanook.
AME Unmanned Air Systems has declared that the Fury 1500 Special Mission UAS has achieved a successful 14.2 hour flight. The Fury 1500 was manufactured at the company’s San Luis Obispo facility.
Faun Trackway, based at the US, has launched a new technology known as Aircraft Landing Mat (ALM), which has been specifically developed for landing of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
ReconRobotics Inc. has secured a contract to supply the U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force with 315 Recon Scout XT micro robot kits and SearchStick Devices. The deal is worth $4.8 million and will see the company completing the delivery by end of the month.
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are going to test a new devices called “Throwbots” or throwable robots in Afghanistan. The Department of Defence said that they will soon be receiving a shipment of 4,000 of these small robots that can be used for reconnaissance in potentially hazardous combat situations.
The U.S. Department of Defence has awarded grants to three schools to fund robotics programs. Broad River, Coosa, and Shell Point elementary schools will be getting $518,000 worth grants for the high percentage of military families they have served.
The Mundus Group successfully completed 10 years of their Green Aerospace Initiative, which is involved in making the UAV technology environmentally-friendly.
iRobot has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract worth 60 million dollars spanning five years by the Robotic Systems Joint Program Office (RSJPO) of the US Army.
The BigDog robot is soon to be eclipsed by a new member of the family, the BullDog robot, as per Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics. Marc said that a new contract for the LS3 robot was under development and would be ready by 2012.
Textron System’s operating unit, AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) has announced that it has successfully completed the Manned Unmanned System Integration Capability (MUSIC) exercise by the US Army for the year 2011.
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