Robots
Beyond Earth, Beneath Golden Dome: NASA and Space Force Map an Autonomous Future
One single conversation covered a nuclear-powered spacecraft deploying helicopters at Mars, a rotorcraft exploring Saturn’s moon Titan, a Venus probe deciding which discoveries to transmit before its operating window closes...Read More
OpEd: The New Defense Economy Requires Building American Deterrence at Speed and Scale
For at least a few generations, discussions about America’s defense industrial base have centered on the Department of War (DOW) and major defense contractors (the Primes). That partnership won wars...Read More
Senator John Hoeven Announces Project Atlas to Link Air and Ground Autonomy for Military Missions
Today, Sen. John Hoeven announced Project Atlas at the 20th Annual UAS Summit, outlining a new partnership to integrate unmanned aircraft and unmanned ground vehicles into a coordinated system that...Read More
ANELLO Photonics Brings GPS-Denied Navigation to the Army during AUSA in Washington, D.C.
This year, AUSA arrives at a moment when soldiers, program managers and vehicle designers across the force confront the uncomfortable truth that GPS can no longer be trusted on the...Read More
Pentagon Plans Autonomous Warfare Command by 2027
The Department of War plans to establish a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command by Oct. 1, 2027, aiming to accelerate how the U.S. military buys, tests and fields unmanned and autonomous...Read More
GeoAI Is Becoming the Nervous System for Robots, Panel Says at Geo Gov Summit 2026
Robots continue to multiply across factories, campuses and disaster zones. But the machines are only as smart as the maps and models feeding them. That was one of the key...Read More
The MAVLink-M Integration Hackathon: Why Interoperability Is Becoming the Warfighter’s Competitive Advantage
At the MAVLink-Military Integration Hackathon, sponsored by Auterion and the DroneCode Foundation, teams from smaller companies and specialized builders integrated autonomous systems that would ordinarily take months to coordinate. Across...Read More
Drones, Robotics and the Future of Construction
The construction industry has never been short on innovation. From GPS-guided equipment to building information modeling (BIM), each technological advance has changed how companies plan and build projects. Today, in...Read More
When the Machine Decides: Inside the Legal Battle Over AI in Autonomous Systems
The gap between what artificial intelligence (AI) can do and what the law says it should do keeps widening. An expert “Minds and Machines” panel at Law-Tech Connect explored that...Read More