PLD Space's €180M Series C makes it the best-funded contender in Europe's sovereign launch rebuild, ahead of Isar, MaiaSpace and a collapsing Orbex.
Robots proven in contested, hazardous environments are moving into substation inspection and maintenance. Is defence-grade autonomy the right template for civilian grids, or an over-engineered import?
A South Dakota startup is betting the carbon-capture prize is the enzyme, not the plant, as it moves from lab to a 2026 field pilot.
A guide to the 2026 AI infrastructure stack, and why the training-to-inference flip rewrote where the money sits.
ARX Robotics' GEREON UGS fleet is deployed by the Bundeswehr in NATO's Grand Eagle II exercise on the eastern flank. The 27-person startup is out-learning the defence primes on Ukraine's real-world feedback loop, and the ground-robotics prime slot is suddenly up for grabs.
Versa Vascular named ex-Medtronic CEO Bill Shields and lifted its AdapTR tricuspid repair Series C to $42 million, funding a U.S. Early Feasibility Study.
Vast's $500M round is the largest vote of confidence yet in the commercial race to replace the ISS — but raising the money and flying the station are different problems, as an August 2026 layoff showed.
Defence-robotics capital is concentrating into a two-tier stack: platforms buying scale through M&A at the top, governments seeding the base through grants, and standalone mid-stage firms caught in the squeeze.
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