Discover the cutting-edge innovations in autonomous systems, defense tech, and physical AI that are redefining global security and reshaping the physical workforce.
Rune Technologies won a $4.1M Army award to wire its TyrOS logistics platform into the 1st Cavalry Division's autonomous resupply. The real question is whether a $99M contract vehicle becomes orders.
Babcock signed two memoranda of understanding to explore UK manufacturing of uncrewed ground vehicles — one with Ark Robotics, one with Digital Concepts Engineering. Neither commits to a volume, a price or a date. The investment case rests on who owns the manufacturing and sustainment layer.
REGENT Craft raised $240M and flew the first human-crewed all-electric Seaglider. With zero commercial deliveries against a $10B order book, the investment case rests on certification and the manufacturing ramp at its Rhode Island factory.
Textron Aviation and Merlin paired an FAA-certified Cessna SkyCourier with an aircraft-agnostic autonomy stack, aiming at the thin middle of military logistics. The concept is easy to announce; certification, retrofit economics and liability decide whether it ships.
Diehl Defence and Elbit Systems showed the SkyStriker loitering munition passing a target between aircraft at 80 kilometres. The demonstration is the clearest sign yet that Berlin wants the system, and the factory, on German soil.
For sixty years the powered military exoskeleton died on the scale. Edgerun, a Y Combinator startup, says humanoid-robotics components finally make a ten-pound hip unit viable — and that the first profitable market may be mining and construction, not the infantry.
A five-year IDIQ for commercial, TRL-9 drop-in kits shows how defence procurement is shifting toward off-the-shelf autonomy, and why the Navy's MUSV trials are the real prize.
Swarmer, the Nasdaq-listed drone-autonomy company, agreed to buy Ratel Robotics for up to $224 million in cash and stock. The structure — $7.2 million at closing plus earnouts — is a bet on a field-proven order book and NATO certification, not factory capacity.