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Zoox Turns On The Meter In Las Vegas With 2,500-Vehicle NHTSA Exemption — Sep 1, 2026 — Amazon-owned Zoox began charging for driverless rides in Las Vegas on August 10 after NHTSA granted a two-year commercial exemption covering up to 2,5...HII's Watcher sUSV Wins DIU Nod, Advances Toward Production — Aug 17, 2026 — DIU has officially recognised successful completion of the PRIME prototype programme for HII's Watcher small USV, built with MetalCraft Marine on the...Stratom Wins US Army TALUS Contract For Contested Logistics — Aug 16, 2026 — The U.S. Army has picked a Stratom-led team of Forterra, ND Defense, GS Engineering and Waltonen to build TALUS, a modular autonomous distribution sys...Naval Academy Launches Drones From Yard Patrol Craft In First-Ever YP NEXT Block — Aug 13, 2026 — Midshipmen just wrapped the U.S. Naval Academy's inaugural YP NEXT training block, using Yard Patrol craft as motherships for Havoc AI's Rampage, Blac...Zoox Locks Final Production Robotaxi Design, Aims 100 Vehicles A Week — Aug 12, 2026 — Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled the final production design of its purpose-built robotaxi and will scale Hayward output to 100 vehicles per week as se...Waymo Opens Robotaxi Rides To Every Rider In Dallas — Aug 5, 2026 — Waymo opened its driverless robotaxi service to the general public in Dallas after clearing roughly 150,000 riders from its interest list since Februa...NODA AI Bags $10M Pentagon Deal For MAESTRO Drone-Swarm Orchestration Layer — Aug 3, 2026 — The Department of War hands NODA AI a $10M contract to build MAESTRO, a vendor-agnostic autonomy layer that keeps American drones, boats and ground ro...Ondas Buys DZYNE Technologies For $875.8M To Anchor Ondas Sentinel Defense Unit — Aug 1, 2026 — Ondas Inc. closed an $875.8 million cash-and-stock acquisition of long-endurance ISR and counter-drone maker DZYNE Technologies, folding it into a new...Waymo Restarts Freeway Robotaxi Trips In Phoenix After May Recall — Jul 31, 2026 — Waymo said it is gradually resuming freeway rides across its service area starting with Phoenix, two months after pulling robotaxis off highways over...Aurora Signs Charger Logistics To Run Driverless Trucks On Dallas-Laredo Sun Belt Lane — Jul 29, 2026 — Aurora Innovation added Charger Logistics as a customer for its second-generation driverless truck on July 28, 2026, starting on the Dallas–Laredo cor...Target Arm's Ralar 2 Turns HDT's Hunter WOLF UGV Into A Moving, Pilotless Drone Base — Jul 29, 2026 — Target Arm announced July 27 that its Ralar 2 launch-and-recovery arm now integrates with HDT Global's Hunter WOLF and WOLF-X unmanned ground vehicles...Volkswagen And Horizon Robotics Deepen Carizon Tie-Up For Level 3 Rollout In China — Jul 22, 2026 — Volkswagen and Horizon Robotics widen their Carizon partnership on unified AI driving, targeting Level 3 cars for China from the second half of 2027 a...Machina Labs Wins Lockheed Martin JASSM Qualification Contract — Jul 17, 2026 — Machina Labs has secured a Lockheed Martin qualification contract to supply robotically formed metal components for the JASSM cruise missile, marking...Anduril Wins First NATO Deal As NCIA Picks Lattice For eAirC2 Trial — Jul 13, 2026 — The NATO Communications and Information Agency picked Anduril, Palantir and Athea to trial competing data platforms for eAirC2, giving Anduril its fir...Tesla Runs Steering-Wheel-Less Cybercabs Around Giga Texas For Employee Rides — Jul 13, 2026 — Tesla says a gold, pedal-less Cybercab began picking up and dropping off employees inside Giga Texas this week, marking the first in-house driverless...Comand AI Raises €32M Series A to Scale Prevail Battlefield Platform — Jul 9, 2026 — French defence software startup Comand AI closed a €32 million ($34.6M) Series A led by Blossom Capital, with strategic investment from Saab, to scale...Waymo Launches Driverless Rides In San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa And Denver — Jul 8, 2026 — Alphabets Waymo is starting rider-only autonomous trips in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa and Denver for its own employees, using the sixth-generation Oj...Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides In Miami, First Beyond Texas & California — Jul 7, 2026 — Tesla's Robotaxi service went live in Miami on July 3, running fully unsupervised Model Ys across a 20-square-mile geofence in the first market outsid...Elroy Air to List on Nasdaq at $1B via SPAC to Scale Chaparral Cargo Drone — Jul 5, 2026 — Elroy Air will go public through a merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II at roughly $1 billion enterprise value, adding $165M in PIPE to scale i...Tesla Launches Driverless Robotaxi Rides in Miami, First Beyond Texas — Jul 5, 2026 — Tesla started unsupervised Robotaxi service in Miami on July 3, its first driverless ride-hailing market outside Texas and California, using Model Y v...