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    UAV Factory Announces Release of the Penguin C Mk2 VTOL UAS

    Bend, Oregon, 17 August 2021 /Immediate Release/-- UAV Factory LLC, a global leader in the tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) technology, proudly announces the release of its production-ready Penguin C Mk2 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) long-endurance aircraft. Building upon the operationally proven and reliable catapult-launched Penguin C UAS, the... Continue reading

    Autonomous Vehicle Insurtech Koop Technologies Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round

    PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Koop Technologies, an insurance technology startup specializing in autonomous vehicle and robotics risks, has announced its $2.5M seed funding. Koop will use this capital to bring its data-driven insurance platform to more customers in the autonomous vehicle and robotics industries. The round was led by a leading deep tech... Continue reading

    Zipline co-founder urges regulatory updates to speed benefits of drone delivery to Americans who need healthcare

    To support the autonomous revolution, the United States will need signifcant changes to existing regulatory frameworks, Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo told XPONENTIAL 2021 attendees in his keynote Thursday.  “Everyone in this room has tried making small, incremental improvements or changes to the system over the past nine years,” said the 34-year-old entrepreneur, who co-founded the... Continue reading

    Robotics pioneer ponders: Where are all of the robots?

    As co-founder of the Amazon Prime Air delivery-by-drone project, groundbreaking technologist Gur Kimchi has done more than his part to usher in a reality full of robots. But in his keynote Thursday, Kimchi posed what he called a key question: Why aren’t there more?“I have been irritating my friends for literally a decade with this... Continue reading

    Supporting the Next Generation of Autonomy with Policy and Governance

    XPONENTIAL 2021's second day move forward with a sprite momentum focused on policy and governance, and their crucial role in advancing the future of autonomous systems. Michelle Duquette, portfolio manager and outcome leader for UAS operations at The MITRE Corporation opened the first panel discussion by connecting the topic of policy and governance with the... Continue reading

    Brian Wynne: Community Cohesion Will Propel Us Toward Assured Autonomy

    In the time since AUVSI last convinced the unmanned systems industry for XPONENTIAL in-person in 2019, the environments and use cases in which these systems operate worldwide has significantly changed. As AUVSI President and CEO Brian Wynne stated during his Community Address kicking off this week’s XPONENTIAL 2021 programming in Atlanta, the Association and the broader community... Continue reading

    FAA chief hails industry collaboration as part of regulatory path to trusted integration, including progress on BVLOS

    In a keynote titled “Leading to Trusted Integration,” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson raised hopes of progress by the end of the year toward new beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) rules.  But first, he invoked the vocabulary of aviation to acknowledge that regulation is often seen as a “drag” on the unmanned aerial systems (UAS)... Continue reading

    Singh offers big-picture frameworks for thinking about assured autonomy

    Dr. Sanjiv Singh drew on a multifaceted career in autonomy to offer several high-level frameworks for thinking about what it will take to realize the potential in unmanned aerial systems safely. Singh, a consulting professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University , began his career in 1985 working on the first autonomous ground... Continue reading

    University of North Dakota, DHS Sign Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for UAS Operations

    A new agreement between UND Aerospace and the U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations is a great opportunity for UND faculty and staff to involve aviation and UAS students in real-world scenarios and research, as well as to educate and train DHS employees, according to UND Aerospace officials. UND and U.S. Customs... Continue reading

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