Shifters raises $10.2M to put robots first into tunnels and rubble
The US-Israeli startup raised a $10.2 million seed led by Ace Capital Partners to scale ground robots that enter tunnels and rubble before troops.
Ukraine's defense ministry says a Brave1-backed interceptor automates 95% of a Shahed intercept, leaving the operator to pick the target and clear the shot.
The US-Israeli startup raised a $10.2 million seed led by Ace Capital Partners to scale ground robots that enter tunnels and rubble before troops.
Airbus is turning its best-selling H145 light twin into a pilotless cargo helicopter for frontline resupply, with a maiden flight due late 2026 and service entry not before the early 2030s.
Shield AI says one AI flew a V-BAT and Destinus Hornet drones as a single team in Oklahoma, a milestone arriving days after a Reuters investigation into V-BAT crashes and a whistleblower's claims about its autonomy.
At Operation Jailbreak, six firms wired a radar 'Hunter' and a gun-armed 'Killer' into one autonomous counter-drone kill chain in under a week, the Army's argument that it can integrate at software speed.
A Reuters investigation ties the combat-proven drone now sold to Ukraine, Greece and the US Coast Guard to a run of crashes, a severed-fingers injury, and a whistleblower who says the company buried the failures.
The zebra-striped trucks are a cheap bid to break machine-vision targeting, but Ukrainian drone crews and AI researchers say a fresh paint job buys days, not safety.
The Pentagon's Crucible 2 turns a $54.6 billion autonomy budget line into a contracted shoot-off, and the 25-firm roster shows who the Pentagon is betting on to fly the swarms.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has cleared the combat-tested Vepr robot for Armed Forces service, part of a plan to contract more than 25,000 ground robots in 2026 and pull soldiers off frontline resupply and evacuation runs.
The order expands a drone Greece already uses to watch its Aegean islands, and brings Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy business to Athens.
Elbit America has pulled Anduril onto its SIGMA bid for the U.S. Army's self-propelled howitzer contest, a sign the program could turn on autonomy and networking as much as on the cannon.
Boeing says anechoic-chamber testing confirms a low radar cross-section for its uncrewed MQ-28 Ghost Bat, a survivability claim that feeds straight into the contested race to field cheap loyal-wingman jets.
GDIT and AWS are testing battlefield logistics AI on a Baja 1000 race bike, treating the thousand-mile desert course as a proxy for the comms-denied terrain the software is meant to run on.
Russia captured just 14 km² of Ukraine in May, its lowest monthly total since 2023, and DeepState says the net change went negative as Ukraine clawed back more than Russia took.
Uvision's new CORTEX software puts one operator in charge of many loitering munitions at once, a bid to own the command layer over the swarm rather than just the munition.
Helsing showed the RX-1 quadruped and its Area 9 research unit in Paris on June 1 and said it will give the robot to universities rather than sell it, as Ukraine fields tens of thousands of ground robots and China's Unitree dominates the quadruped market.