Discover the cutting-edge innovations in autonomous systems, defense tech, and physical AI that are redefining global security and reshaping the physical workforce.
AeroVironment’s $464.8 million E-HEL award moves the 30 kW LOCUST X3 laser from prototype to production — the first directed-energy system in US military history to cross that line, and a signal that laser C-UAS economics have finally won.
Humanoids crossed from demo to deployment, but the evidence base is mostly vendor-authored. Agility's SPAC is about to price the gap for the first time.
The U.S. military just placed its first large-scale production order for ground-vehicle autonomy. A $92M ROGUE-Fires Block 2 award turns a venture bet into a program of record — and reveals how defence-robotics exits now work.
Global counter-drone spending passed $53 billion in 2026 as two $500 million Pentagon contracts split the market between Perennial Autonomy’s $15,000 kinetic interceptors and AeroVironment’s high-energy lasers.
FAA Part 108 was due in March. It is still unpublished while the drone industry crosses 65 million flights. A debate on the certification bottleneck and who scales first.
Scout AI raised the largest defense-tech Series A in US history, $100M, to build Fury, an embodied-AI foundation model that commands multi-domain unmanned fleets with no hardware of its own.
Five 27-kg FireAnt robots strapped to an M2A4 Bradley, the fastest path from competition finalist to division-level contract, and what the swarm test really proves.
Japan and TEPCO are forming a consortium to deploy AI robots and drones to remove 880 tons of fuel debris at Fukushima Daiichi. It is the largest test bed on Earth for robots working where no person can follow.
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