AeroVironment

AeroVironment has rolled out its latest variant of its Switchblade 300 loitering missile system, more commonly known as a suicide drone. Building on the previous Block 10C, the Switchblade 300 Block 20 boasts greater endurance and ease of operation.

Announced at AUVSI in Dallas today, AeroVironment's new Snipe Nano Quadrotor UAS is a man-packable​ drone with the potential to be carried by every foot soldier, vastly increasing situational awareness and individual capability.

Various groups have developed drones that take and land vertically, yet transition to horizontal flight while airborne. One of the latest, AeroVironment's Quantix, is designed to be particularly easy to use.​

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has waived the usual restrictions on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and is allowing the BP oil company to use a Puma AE for aerial surveys over land for the first time in the United States.

AeroVironment has released its TurboCord, which allows businesses to provide faster EV charging by simply installing NEMA 6-20R 240-volt outlets rather than going to the expense of providing dedicated charging units.

A solar-powered variant of AeroVironment’s hand-launched Puma AE small UAS has stayed in the air for a total of nine hours and 11 minutes, eclipsing the two-hour flight time of the standard battery-powered Puma AE and comparable competitor aircraft by a considerable margin.

Scientists have created a solar-powered swimming underwater robot, inspired by the ocean sunfish.

Aerovironment is examining the potential for its UAVs to rapidly re-establish communications when existing communications networks are knocked out following a natural or man-made disaster.

The Switchblade is a man-packable micro air vehicle, offering silent, loitering, almost invisible, over-the-horizon, aerial surveillance and reconnaissance. If it finds a target of opportunity, it also carries a warhead

AeroVironment has unveiled its latest Unmanned Aircraft System, the "perch-and-stare" Shrike quadrocopter.

In a setback for AeroVironment's four-year Global Observer demonstrator program, the first Global Observer unmanned aircraft system has crashed during flight-testing.

AeroVironment's 'Nano Hummingbird' is the first two-wing, flapping wing aircraft that carries its own energy source and relies only on its flapping wings for propulsion and control to achieve controlled precision hovering and fast-forward flight.