Defense Robotics News
Latest Defense Robotics news and analysis — 44 articles tagged Defense Robotics on The Robotics Media.
- Fedorov's 'Army Of Robots' Wants A Humanoid Killing Russians Within Six Months — — Former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov unveils Army of Robots, a defense-tech push aiming to put humanoid combat robots on the Russian fro...
- Pilgrim Bags $25M Seed At $150M For Argus Airborne Biothreat Sensor — — Jake Adler's defense-biotech raised $25M led by Buckley Ventures to scale Argus, a 50-pound air sampler already deploying with the U.S. CDC.
- US Army Winds Down Drone Battalion, Pushes UAVs Down To Every Squad — — The Army is retiring its year-old experimental drone battalion after Exercise Saber Junction, redirecting its Ukraine-inspired lessons into a squad-le...
- Serbia Fields AgiBot D1 MaxPro Robot Dogs Armed With Missiles At Victor 2026 — — Belgrade paraded AgiBot D1 MaxPro quadrupeds carrying Yugoslav-designed Wasp anti-tank missiles, rifles and grenade launchers at the Victor 2026 exerc...
- AeroVironment Books First International LOCUST Laser Order For $50M+ — — A landmark direct commercial sale — AeroVironment's first foreign purchase order for its LOCUST laser weapon system — arrives days after the US Army's...
- Textron Wins $85M In Navy Task Orders For Aerosonde ISR Drones In The Pacific — — Textron Systems has landed two Navy task orders worth up to about $85M to fly Aerosonde Mk. 4.7 VTOL drones as contractor-owned ISR services supportin...
- Iran Seizes Anduril Dive-LD Underwater Drone That Had Been 'Dead In The Water' Near Hormuz — — U.S. Central Command says the Anduril Dive-LD that Iran's IRGC Navy claims to have seized near the Strait of Hormuz was an older model that had malfun...
- U.S. Army Awards Heaviside Industries $99M For MOTH Drone-Detection Sensor — — The U.S. Army has awarded Marina del Rey defense startup Heaviside Industries a five-year contract worth up to $99 million to field the MOTH handheld...
- XTEND Wins Up To $15M NATO Deal Amid Shift Off Chinese Drones — — Israeli-American AI drone maker XTEND signed a multi-year contract worth up to $15 million with a European NATO member's Ministry of Defense, with $4....
- US Army Advances Five Vendors To Manufacturing After SRR Drone Fly-Off — — Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics were picked for manufacturing-readiness assessments after the Army's platoon-level Short R...
- Stratom Wins US Army TALUS Contract For Contested Logistics — — 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...
- DHS Awards $1.5B Counter-Drone Deal to Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT and Others — — The Department of Homeland Security has split up to $1.5 billion in counter-UAS work across 14 vendors including Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT, Fortem, D-...
- Marines Fly VXE30 Stalker As FPV Drone Truck For Neros Archer Strikes — — Advanced Infantry Training Battalion Marines just flew a VXE30 Stalker as a mothership for Neros Technologies' Archer FPV drone in a live-fire test at...
- Naval Academy Launches Drones From Yard Patrol Craft In First-Ever YP NEXT Block — — 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...
- 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...
- AeroVironment Locks In $117M Army Order For 82 P550 Reconnaissance Drones — — AeroVironment has been awarded a $117.3M US Army production contract for 82 P550 eVTOL uncrewed aircraft under the service's Long Range Reconnaissance...
- DHS Fires The Starting Gun On $1.5B Counter-Drone IDIQ, Awards 12 Firms — — The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a five-year, $1.5 billion counter-UAS IDIQ split between 12 vendors, with Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT, L...
- Korean Quadrupeds Join Combat Drills As Rainbow, Lion And Ghost Race For The Battlefield — — South Korea's Rainbow Robotics, Lion Robotics and LIG Nex1's Ghost Robotics are training four-legged robots alongside tanks and Marines as Seoul races...
- Gecko Robotics Opens Sewickley Manufacturing Hub To Speed U.S. Navy Component Production — — Pittsburgh unicorn Gecko Robotics is opening a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing and integration facility in Sewickley, Pennsylvania to help defense ma...