Drones news focuses on the electronics that enable UAV performance—such as brushless motors, GPS modules, flight controllers, and camera integration. Applications span agriculture, surveillance, delivery, and cinematography. Innovations include AI-based obstacle avoidance, long-range communication, and swarming capabilities. For Electronics Weekly readers, drone updates reveal opportunities in system integration, embedded control, and sensor fusion, as designers tackle challenges in power management, aerodynamics, and real-time responsiveness.
MatrixSpace is widening its portable drone detection portfolio with the launch of MatrixSpace Fusion 360. The system looks to fuse radar, optical, and RF/Remote ID sensor data into a unified view – the company describes it as its multi-sensor device. Unified According to MatrixSpace, this reduces false alarms while improving identification of smaller devices. For example, low-flying, and evasive drones. ...
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Lockheed Martin is investing $50 million in Saildrone, a specialist in maritime autonomous systems. The collaboration will see commercially available unmanned surface vehicles (USV) equipped with lethal defence technology. “For the last 10 years we have focused on evolving the reliability, endurance and autonomy of the Saildrone platform, which has been demonstrated in over 2 million nautical miles of active ...
Drones are to be evaluated in the UK for delivering defibrillators to people experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The University of Surrey is running the study, with Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (‘KSS’), and South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. “With survival rates for OHCA in the UK currently below 10%, a key challenge is the delay ...
All hail the Gadget Masters Cum Laude from the University of Bath: they are new drone world champions. The competition was for students to design, build and fly their own drone.
Student engineers from the University of Bath have won the 2025 UAS Challenge, where 32 universities teams brought self-constructed autonomous drones to Lincolnshire. Team Bath Drones beat reigning champions Beihang University, and Politecnico di Milano came third. “The team have worked incredibly hard this year to make our drone even better in terms of how it flies and how it’s ...
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The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is highlighting successful trials of uncrewed robotic systems detecting and classifying threats. Specifically, a single remote operator controlled three uncrewed air and land vehicles. The trials were to prove that robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) can be integrated into and controlled from crewed command vehicles. Uncrewed It is described as a UK ...
I've never seen a drone taken to pieces before, but here is an interesting iFixit teardown of the little DJI Neo drone...
QS RF Locator is Quadsat’s new product to geolocate RF signals to a precise location. The drone-based technology will detect and locate the source of interference, for example, for both commercial and military applications. The Danish company – which uses drones to test and measure satellite antennas in-situ – is using its existing systems for the RF inspection. It says ...
