Rolls-Royce News
Latest Rolls-Royce news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 12 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence group headquartered in London. It builds jet engines, naval propulsion systems and small modular nuclear reactors through Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd. Its Indianapolis-based Liberty Works division has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to advance engine designs for medium-thrust autonomous combat aircraft.
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Products by Rolls-Royce
- Rolls-Royce SMR — The Rolls-Royce SMR is a 470 MWe small modular reactor based on a compact pressurised-water design. Around 90% of the plant is built in factory conditions as pr...
Latest Rolls-Royce news
- Wylfa SMR Client Lines Up £1.1bn Early Works Package For UK's First Small Modular Reactor Site — Great British Energy - Nuclear is sounding out contractors for a £730m-£1.1bn preparatory package at Anglesey's Wylfa site, the UK's first small modul...
- Siemens Energy To Build Rolls-Royce SMR Steam Turbines At Newcastle CA Parsons Works — Siemens Energy will manufacture high-pressure turbines and valve casings for the first three Rolls-Royce SMR units at the Gwyndod project, supporting...
- Xanadu Posts Higher Q2 Revenue, Doubles Down on U.S. Photonic Push — Photonic quantum computing pioneer Xanadu grew Q2 revenue to $1.5M, cut chip coupling losses to a record 0.085 dB and scaled its Albany, New York foot...
- flynas Firms Up 5 A330-900s And 20 A321neos At Farnborough Airshow 2026 — Saudi Arabia's flynas firmed up an additional 25 Airbus aircraft — five A330-900s and 20 A321neos — at Farnborough 2026, taking its total firm Airbus...
- Pratt & Whitney's NextGen2 GTF Will Adopt CMCs and Composite Fan Blades — Pratt & Whitney is bringing ceramic matrix composites and composite fan blades — technologies GE pioneered on the LEAP — into its NextGen2 GTF, as CFM...
- British Business Bank Proposes £100M UK Aerospace Supply Chain Fund at Farnborough — The British Business Bank formally proposed a £100 million debt fund for UK aerospace suppliers at Farnborough 2026, backed by GKN Aerospace, Airbus,...
- Canada Joins GCAP as First Observer at Farnborough 2026 — Canada becomes GCAP's first official observer at Farnborough 2026, opening the UK-Italy-Japan sixth-generation Tempest fighter program to Ottawa's eng...
- QuiX Quantum Unveils Carina, First Universal Photonic Quantum Computer For Data Centers — Dutch-German QuiX Quantum has delivered Carina, the world's first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for customer data-center...
- Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane And EPCC Ink Multi-Year UK Gas-Turbine Quantum Pact — Quantinuum's Helios trapped-ion system will be the testbed for a UK industrial quantum agreement with Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC targeting fluid-...
- Rolls-Royce SMR to Open GBP12M Pioneer Works in Derby — Rolls-Royce SMR is opening its first manufacturing development centre in Derby in Q4 2026, a GBP12 million site called Pioneer Works that will de-risk...
- Vattenfall Picks Rolls-Royce SMR for Sweden's Ringhals Nuclear Build — Vattenfall's Videberg Kraft has selected Rolls-Royce SMR over GE Vernova to supply three small modular reactors near Ringhals, adding 1.5 GW to Sweden...
- Air Force Funds GE Aerospace GE426, Rolls-Royce Liberty Works To Power Autonomous Wingman Drones — GE Aerospace's new GE426 and Rolls-Royce's AE-class designs both won U.S. Air Force preliminary design contracts to power medium-thrust Autonomous Col...