Autonomous Weapons News
Latest Autonomous Weapons news and analysis — 33 articles tagged Autonomous Weapons on The Robotics Media.
- XTEND Wins USSOCOM Phase III Modular Kinetic Drone Program Selection — — 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...
- Castelion Locks In $1B Series C At $13B To Mass-Produce Blackbeard Hypersonic Missiles — — California defense-tech startup Castelion has raised a $1 billion Series C at a $13 billion valuation to scale production of its low-cost Blackbeard h...
- Marines Buy 10 V2X Tempest Counter-UAS Trucks In $19.06M Pentagon Award — — The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered 10 V2X Tempest mobile counter-UAS vehicles under a $19.06 million Pentagon contract, adding another kinetic layer to...
- Marine Corps Moves To Sole-Source Anduril Pulsar-L Counter-Drone Kits For ACVs — — The U.S. Marine Corps published a Notice of Intent to sole-source Anduril's Pulsar-L electronic warfare jammer to arm Amphibious Combat Vehicles again...
- NODA AI Bags $10M Pentagon Deal For MAESTRO Drone-Swarm Orchestration Layer — — 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...
- Everforth ECS Wins $115M Three-Year U.S. Army 'Nautilus' Trusted-AI Contract — — Fairfax, Virginia's Everforth ECS is the prime contractor on a three-year, $115M award from U.S. Army DEVCOM ARL to develop and field trusted AI for t...
- Agon Emerges With $30M Seed To Train Europe's Autonomous Weapons In Virtual Battlefields — — London-and-Berlin defence AI startup Agon exits stealth with a $30M seed led by Lakestar to train autonomous weapons at machine speed against adaptive...
- HII Lands U.S. Navy Option Year For Lionfish Cyber-Compliant SUUV Build — — The U.S. Navy exercised HII's option-year production contract for Lionfish, its next-gen small unmanned undersea vehicle based on REMUS 300, with a pr...
- Senra Systems Locks In $65M Series B To Reinvent Aerospace Wire Harnesses — — SpaceX-alumni-founded Senra Systems has closed a $65M Series B co-led by Lowercarbon and Interlagos to open a third wire harness factory serving aeros...
- Boeing To Debut MQ-28 Ghost Bat At Farnborough Airshow — — Boeing said its uncrewed MQ-28 Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft will make its Farnborough debut on static display when the UK airshow opens Jul...
- Anduril's Arsenal-1 Powers Up For Full Combat Drone Production — — Anduril Industries' 1 million-sq-ft Arsenal-1 factory in Ohio is set for full production this month, with Fury combat drones already rolling off the l...
- Pentagon Creates DRPM-UxS Drone Czar, Pulls Programs From Services — — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a June 29 memo creating the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems, a new office that will over...
- China Debuts Truck-Mounted EMALS Drone Catapult in First Public Test — — Beijing Institute of Technology released the first public video of a modular truck-mounted electromagnetic aircraft launch system firing a fixed-wing...
- Palantir and Shield AI Fuse Hivemind Autonomy Into Kill Web C2 — — Palantir and Shield AI are integrating Hivemind autonomy with Palantir's battle-management stack, letting fielded drones like V-BAT ingest, triage and...
- Space Force And True Anomaly Complete 61-Hour VICTUS HAZE Intercept — — True Anomaly's JACKAL-0004 spacecraft found, approached and imaged a newly deployed target in 61 hours, beating the U.S. Space Force's 72-hour VICTUS...
- Unsealed Emails Show Pentagon Called Anthropic Talks 'Very Close' As Blacklist Landed — — Court documents unsealed July 2 reveal Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael emailed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that talks were 'very close' the day af...
- Palladyne AI, IAI Partner To Bring HARPY Loitering Munitions To US — — Palladyne AI secured exclusive U.S. rights to manufacture and market IAI's combat-proven HARPY, HAROP and Mini HARPY loitering munitions to the Depart...
- DRONE VOLT brings French dual-use UAS arsenal to Eurosatory 2026 — — Paris-listed DRONE VOLT is showcasing its full counter-drone, surveillance and dispenser drone line-up at Eurosatory 2026 as European militaries lean...
- Shield AI Brings Runway-Free X-BAT Fighter Jet To Eurosatory 2026 — — Shield AI is unveiling its X-BAT AI-piloted VTOL fighter jet at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, pitching a 3,700 km range autonomous combat aircraft that ta...
- Stark Defence Closes In On €300M Round At €2.5B For Virtus Strike Drones — — The Berlin-based kamikaze drone startup is doubling its valuation 18 months after founding, with Peter Thiel joining a round to bankroll mass producti...