National Unmanned Ground Vehicle Student Competition Announced! Unmanned Systems Canada is pleased to announce Canada’s first Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Student Competition, modelled after our very successful and long-running Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Student Competition. As with our UAV Competition, this new UGV Competition will allow students at post-secondary institutions across Canada to develop a scale […]
Industry News You Need USC is committed to conducting, compiling and sharing research relevant to the Unmanned Systems community. Email editor@unmannedsystems.ca with a ‘quick intro’ of an industry association report, research paper, or company research that you’d like to share. We can include your contact information, if requested, with your summary of its relevance to […]
Free Rides! Calgary and Edmonton to test 12-seat electric, autonomous vehicle shuttle bus system Two Alberta cities will offer free test-rides in autonomous, electric shuttles this fall! City planners in Alberta announced on June 6, 2018 that two AV projects will allow the public to ‘test-ride’ in Autonomous Vehicles (AV’s) in the fall of 2018. […]
Transport Canada’s RPAS Task Force has just released a summary of an information meeting held with UAS Industry members, on May 23 in Ottawa with both in-person attendance as well as participation across Canada via teleconference. The Task Force provided an overview of the almost 700 submissions that it received from consultion submissions received as […]
Register now to join 400 Unmanned Systems experts, investors, policy-makers and exhibitors in Vancouver at Canada’s largest Conference and Tradeshow, #UC18Vancouver! USC Members get additional discounts on exhibitor booths and sponsorship packages – so join now to receive an email with your discount code to use when you register. Early bird rates apply until […]
Our collegues at UAV Coach have let us know of a new 2018 UAS/RPAS/Drone Survey being conducted by SkyLogic and targeted to look at the state of the industry this year in time for InterDrone. While US based, they are collecting data from a number of countries and so it might be possible to provide […]
CAF UAS ISTAR Service Tender Released The CAF UAS Services program includes providing near real-time, beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) information to the CAF tactical units at sea and on land. These services are required in Naval and Land operational environments and are defined work packages called Assignments, which are firm […]
The Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE) is an event partner of USC. They publish a comprehensive list of Automated Vehicle conferences, webinars and industry events in their free newsletter, AV Update. Watch for USC’s Event List! To suggest or cross-promote events, email us: editor@unmannedsystems.ca CAVCOE’s June 2018 AV News included this list of upcoming AV-related Events: […]
Kate Kienapple from Costal Drone Co., one of our regular contributed, pulled together a summary of the May 23rd TC Stakeholder Engagement session on CG1 and the proposed UAV/RPAS Rules. Our thanks to Kate for her reporting on this important session. Summary from TC’s Stakeholder Engagement Session On Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, Transport Canada (TC) […]
UC18 Conference registration is now open! Great news! Unmanned Systems Canada announces that registration for Unmanned Canada 2018 is now open. UC18 is Canada’s premiere Unmanned Systems Conference, covering Land, Sea, and Air applications of unmanned vehicles in Canada. This year, UC18 will focus daily on themes of interest to the Unmanned Systems community… Partnering […]