Military & Defense News Coverage of military and defense robotics, including unmanned ground vehicles, aerial and maritime drones, autonomous weapons systems, and AI-enabled command and control. The Robotics Media reports on defense contracts, procurement programs, field deployments, and R&D from contractors, startups, and agencies such as DARPA and NATO members. Readers also find analysis of counter-drone technology, human-machine teaming, and policy debates around autonomy in warfare.
Creotech Preps DV-QKD Module For 2026 Launch After EU Sign-Off — Sep 27, 2026 — Poland's Warsaw-listed Creotech Instruments will start shipping a Common-Criteria-certified DV-QKD module in 2026 after the European Commission signed...Fedorov's 'Army Of Robots' Wants A Humanoid Killing Russians Within Six Months — Sep 27, 2026 — Former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov unveils Army of Robots, a defense-tech push aiming to put humanoid combat robots on the Russian fro...UK MoD Signs £400M AR5 Deal With Tekever, Ships Skydio X10 And FOXE-NATO Drones To The Army — Sep 27, 2026 — Britain is buying more than 1,000 reconnaissance drones under a £400M Tekever AR5 deal plus a £16M contract for Skydio X10 and Evolve Dynamics FOXE-NA...US Navy Stands Up Robotics And Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center In Virginia — Sep 27, 2026 — The Navy has opened a new Robotics and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story under Rea...Zenity Labs Discloses 'SalesBleed', A Zero-Click CRM Exfil In Salesforce Agentforce — Sep 27, 2026 — Zenity Labs on 24 September disclosed 'SalesBleed', three chained flaws in Salesforce Agentforce that let an unauthenticated attacker file a Web-to-Le...Meta Rushes Muse Hotfix After Zero-Day Let Local Malware Hijack Its Mac AI Agent — Sep 27, 2026 — Meta patched a SEV-2 zero-day in the Mac version of its Muse AI assistant on 24 September after researcher Patrick Wardle showed that any locally runn...IonQ says quantum generative model beats classical baselines on satellite SAR change detection — Sep 27, 2026 — IonQ ran a Quantum Circuit Born Machine on live trapped-ion hardware against real Capella Space SAR imagery of MCAS Miramar and Réunion Island, showin...XTEND Wins USSOCOM Phase III Modular Kinetic Drone Program Selection — Sep 26, 2026 — XTEND has secured the Phase III award of U.S. Special Operations Command's Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone program, advancing its XOS-powered Striker, Sc...NASA Picks $1.2B PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope As First Probe Explorer — Sep 26, 2026 — NASA has selected the PRIMA far-infrared space observatory, led by JPL and Caltech, as the first mission in its new Probe Explorers class, with a 2033...OpenAI Agents Hacked Medicare Australia On A Routine Data Task, Transluce Finds — Sep 26, 2026 — A Transluce report finds OpenAI's autonomous agents ran SQL-injection and XSS attacks on Australia's health data portal and several US sites while fet...SpaceX Falcon 9 Set For Classified USSF-385 Launch From Vandenberg — Sep 26, 2026 — USSF-385 will fly a classified Space Force payload from Vandenberg on Saturday, with Falcon 9 booster B1100 targeting its 10th flight and a droneship...Palo Alto Networks Launches Continuous AI Defense With Claude Mythos, GPT-5.6-Cyber — Sep 26, 2026 — Palo Alto's new Unit 42 service routes offensive-security tasks across Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6-Cyber, backed by a $17M internal build-...Army Awards Palantir $48.1M To Modernize Ammunition Management — Sep 25, 2026 — The U.S. Army has awarded Palantir a $48.1 million contract to consolidate nine legacy platforms into a single AI-powered ammunition-management system...OpenAI Agent Broke Into Australia's Medicare Portal, PM Says — Sep 24, 2026 — PM Albanese revealed on Sept 24 that an unsupervised OpenAI agent probed the Medicare statistics portal in June, and OpenAI sat on the disclosure for...Google Launches First TPU Satellites To Orbit On SpaceX Transporter-18 — Sep 24, 2026 — Google's Project Suncatcher will loft four Trillium TPUs aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare on Oct 1, testing the case for orbital AI data cente...Cyera Locks In $400M Series G Extension To Bet On AI-Agent Security — Sep 24, 2026 — Cyera raised $400M at a $12B+ valuation with sole lead Goldman Sachs, and launched Agent Guardian and Cyera Endpoint to police AI agents inside the en...US Army Awards $10.64M Contract For Ukraine-Proven Raybird Drone — Sep 23, 2026 — The U.S. Army has awarded Skyeton Inc., the U.S. arm of Ukraine's Skyeton, a $10.64 million contract to deliver combat-proven Raybird reconnaissance d...Meta Hot-Fixes Muse Zero-Day That Let Local Apps Hijack Its AI Agent On Mac — Sep 23, 2026 — An undocumented dictation endpoint in Meta's Muse Mac agent let unprivileged local processes redirect voice traffic to attacker servers. Meta shipped...SpaceX Hits 700th Falcon Flight, Completes SES O3b mPOWER Constellation — Sep 21, 2026 — Falcon 9 launched the final three O3b mPOWER satellites for SES from Cape Canaveral, closing out the 13-spacecraft MEO broadband constellation on Spac...China Launches Four More PIESAT-2 SAR Satellites On Long March 2D — Sep 21, 2026 — A Long March 2D lifted PIESAT-2 satellites 13-16 to a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit on Sept 19, growing the GalaxySpace-built, PIESAT-operated commerci...