Unmanned Systems News
Latest Unmanned Systems news and analysis — 46 articles tagged Unmanned Systems on The Robotics Media.
- Saildrone Fires First Missiles From A Wind-Powered Robot Ship At RIMPAC — — Saildrone's Surveyor USV fired two Lockheed Martin JAGM missiles off Hawaii during RIMPAC 2026, the first live launch from one of the company's wind-p...
- Hanwha Wins South Korea's First Military UGV Mass-Production Deal — — South Korea has awarded Hanwha Aerospace its first mass-production contract for a multipurpose military robot, selecting the Arion-SMET UGV for the Ar...
- 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...
- Pentagon Backs PDW With Conditional $820M Loan To Rebuild U.S. Drone Supply Chain — — The Office of Strategic Capital committed a conditional $820M loan to Performance Drone Works to spin up high-volume domestic manufacturing of Group 1...
- 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...
- 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...
- Innoviz And Givon Defense Team On LiDAR For Counter-Drone Systems — — Israeli firms Innoviz Technologies and Givon Defense have partnered to evaluate automotive-grade LiDAR as a precision-localization layer for counter-U...
- 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...
- Saronic Launches Mirage, 52-Foot Autonomous Vessel for US Navy — — Saronic Technologies has launched Mirage, a 52-foot autonomous surface vessel with 2,500-nautical-mile range and 3,500-pound payload, now in trials in...
- VisionWave Launches VARAN, a Stealthy Autonomous Ground Vehicle — — VisionWave has launched VARAN at Eurosatory 2026, an uncrewed ground vehicle designed to navigate GPS-denied, jammed battlefields using passive vision...
- Shihang Raises $1B Series A for Unmanned Marine Robots — — Beijing-based Shihang Intelligent has raised about $1 billion in a Series A round to scale its unmanned surface and underwater robots.
- Renault and Thales Partner to Mass-Produce Toutatis Attack Drones — — Renault Group and Thales will jointly mass-produce the Toutatis loitering munition in France, targeting up to 1,000 units a month as Europe races to b...
- KNDS Unveils Containerized Drone Launcher Concept at Eurosatory 2026 — — KNDS revealed a 20-foot container that launches Helsing HX-2 strike drones and Tytan TI-1 METIS interceptors, fusing offense and local air defense in...
- Ukraine Unveils Sea Trident Heavy Underwater Drone at Eurosatory 2026 — — Ukrainian developer Global Mark presented Sea Trident, a 10-tonne autonomous underwater drone with a 1,000 kg payload and 2,000 nautical-mile range, a...
- Alpine Eagle, Origin Robotics Merge Sentinel And BLAZE Defenses — — Germany's Alpine Eagle and Latvia's Origin Robotics signed an MoU to integrate the BLAZE interceptor with the Sentinel architecture into a layered sen...
- AeroVironment Launches Backpackable TOM 50 RE Combat Robot — — AeroVironment's Telerob subsidiary debuted the TOM 50 RE at Eurosatory 2026, a sub-10kg backpackable UGV with SLAM mapping for reconnaissance and expl...
- Heven AeroTech Wins US Army Basic Ordering Agreement For Z1 Hydrogen Drone — — Heven AeroTech has won a US Army Basic Ordering Agreement that lets any Army unit procure its hydrogen-powered Z1 long-endurance drone through a simpl...
- US Greenlights $1.98B Anduril Counter-Drone Sale To Kuwait — — The US State Department cleared a possible $1.98 billion FMS package giving Kuwait Anduril Roadrunner-M, Anvil-Kinetic, Pulsar and Sentry Tower counte...