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Australia Arms Ghost Shark With Up to 12 Sea Mines and Altius Drone Swarms Under A$5.8 Billion Undersea Plan
Australia disclosed the first specific Ghost Shark payloads on 19 October: up to 12 sea mines, Altius loitering-munition swarms and seabed supply…
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Robotics Recap: Saab Launches a Robot Sub, Fugro Gets €150M for USVs, Atlas Builds in a Day and Origin Raises $20M
Four stories from October 14–17: Saab and Sweden launch a large uncrewed underwater vehicle less than a year after contract award; the…
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Seahawk Becomes the First Uncrewed Ship to Deploy With a U.S. Carrier Strike Group
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed on 14 October that the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group deployed with Leidos’ autonomous vessel…
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Robotics Recap: CSIRO Seagrass USV, Korea Clears Humanoids, Gemini Teaches Apollo and Symbotic Buys cellumation
Four stories from Oct 11–13: CSIRO’s USV + towed underwater vehicle for seagrass in turbid water; Korea clearing 20 Robros humanoids onto…
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Agility Robotics Clears SEC Step Toward Nasdaq Listing as “AGLT”; Shareholder Vote Set for Nov. 2
The SEC declared Agility Robotics’ joint S-4 with Churchill Capital Corp XI effective on Oct. 13. Shareholders vote Nov. 2; the combined…
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Ørsted Flies 65-Kilogram Toolkits to North Sea Turbines in Four-Week Cargo Drone Trial
Ørsted and Skyports Drone Services spent four weeks flying 55–65 kg maintenance kits to turbines at Hornsea 2, including a 4 km…
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Robotics Recap: VideoRay Navy MCM Deal, Exail Neptis, Shield AI Hits $400M and Ultra Raises $62M
Four stories from October 8–10, one theme: uncrewed systems are closing more of the kill chain at sea while warehouse robots raise…
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Saab UK and Kraken Fit a Giraffe 1X Radar to an 8.4-Metre Robot Boat in Under Seven Months
Saab UK and Kraken Technology Group have dropped a Giraffe 1X 3D radar into the payload bay of an 8.4-metre uncrewed boat,…
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Robotics Recap: Boston Dynamics Names Ex-Amazon AI Chief CEO, RobCo Hits $1B and 2 More
Boston Dynamics hired former Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, RobCo doubled to a $1 billion valuation, Teradyne bought into Bright…
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Minerva Humanoids Raises $10 Million for VR-Piloted Robots on Oil Rigs and Bomb Calls
Minerva Humanoids left stealth on 6 October with a $10 million pre-seed led by General Catalyst. Its robot, Roger, is piloted by…
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Navy Puts 180-Foot Saronic Marauder Into Production After 140 Test Scenarios
The U.S. Navy has moved Saronic’s 180-foot Marauder from evaluation to production under its MUSV Marketplace, after eight days of round-the-clock trials…
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Gecko Robotics Puts NVIDIA’s OpenShell on the Komodo Robots Working 18 Navy Ships
NVIDIA’s new Open Agent Safety Platform gives AI agents a hardware-enforced cage, and Gecko Robotics is among the first to put it…