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Canada's Defence Drone Initiative treats unmanned systems as an industrial base

Canada's new Defence Drone Initiative links military requirements to domestic expertise in drones, robotics, sensors, secure communications, propulsion, and advanced manufacturing.

4 min to readAug 10, 2026 · 05h
Marines preparing a small unmanned aircraft during a counter-drone training exercise.
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The Marine Corps creates a robotics integration group for the drone training fight

The Marine Corps Robotics Integration Group will turn lessons from attack-drone and counter-drone experimentation into standardized training, making institutional learning a core part of unmanned-systems readiness.

5 min to readAug 9, 2026 · 17h
Military personnel operating a counter-drone system during a field exercise.
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The Marine Corps is turning drone experimentation into a standing training system

The Marine Corps has created a service-level Robotics Integration Group and Counter Drone Team, signaling that small drones are moving from isolated experiments into standardized training, doctrine, and force development.

4 min to readAug 9, 2026 · 05h
Uncrewed defense aircraft operating during a Canadian military technology evaluation.
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Canada's Defence Drone Initiative treats autonomy as an industrial pipeline

Canada's new Defence Drone Initiative connects military requirements to testing, procurement, and domestic production, showing how autonomous systems are becoming a supply-chain and readiness program.

4 min to readAug 8, 2026 · 17h
Military surveillance drone operating over a training range, representing industrial-scale autonomous systems procurement.
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Britain's AR5 deal shows the new drone race is industrial

The British Army’s planned AR5 surveillance-drone purchase and Project Convergence experimentation show that battlefield autonomy now depends on supply chains, training, and scalable operations.

4 min to readAug 8, 2026 · 05h
A fleet of military drones representing Ukraine's expanding procurement and production system.
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Ukraine's drone procurement is becoming an industrial system

Ukraine's defense procurement agency says it signed UAH 333.6 billion in drone contracts during the first half of 2026, showing how battlefield demand is being converted into a repeatable industrial pipeline.

4 min to readAug 4, 2026 · 05h
Unmanned ground, sea, and air systems represented in a defence autonomy illustration.
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Britain opens a 1.2 million pound autonomy contest for land, sea, and air

The UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is funding early-stage ideas that could change how military autonomy works across ground, maritime, and airborne systems.

5 min to readAug 3, 2026 · 17h
TEKEVER AR5 surveillance drone selected for the British Army.
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Britain’s TEKEVER AR5 order turns battlefield-proven surveillance into a sovereign drone program

The UK Army is replacing its ageing Watchkeeper fleet with TEKEVER AR5 surveillance drones in a deal worth up to GBP 400 million, linking battlefield lessons from Ukraine to domestic manufacturing and autonomy.

4 min to readAug 3, 2026 · 05h
UK Defence Innovation image for novel autonomy and robotics research.
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UK defense innovation fund bets on low-TRL autonomy across land, sea, and air

A new UK Defence Innovation competition is putting more than £1 million behind early-stage autonomy ideas that could work across multiple military environments, before a finished platform exists.

4 min to readAug 2, 2026 · 17h
Autonomous drone flying outdoors above a landscape
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Ukraine’s robotics programs are shifting from prototypes to procurement systems

New UK and Ukrainian programs show defense robotics moving into a harder phase: funding, testing, interoperability, and repeatable procurement matter as much as the machine itself.

4 min to readAug 2, 2026 · 05h
Military drone production and air-defense infrastructure in a wartime industrial setting
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Terminal Autonomy strike shows drone factories are now battlefield targets

Russia's reported strike on a U.S.-linked drone factory in Kyiv shows how autonomous-weapons production has become part of the front line.

3 min to readAug 1, 2026 · 17h
Terminal Autonomy AQ-400 Scythe long-range drone product imagery
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Terminal Autonomy strike makes drone factories front-line infrastructure

A reported Russian strike on Terminal Autonomy's Kyiv drone factory shows how autonomous-drone manufacturing is becoming a direct target, not a rear-area supplier.

3 min to readAug 1, 2026 · 05h
Small tactical drone system being prepared for validation and mapping missions
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Red Cat SPiDRWORX makes tactical drones an integration problem

Red Cat's Salt Lake City validation event shows defense drone competition shifting toward partner integrations on real tactical platforms.

3 min to readJul 29, 2026 · 17h
Lockheed Martin MORFIUS X-Rotor counter-drone system flying through a microwave-effect scene
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Lockheed MORFIUS makes drone swarms a reusable-defense problem

Lockheed Martin's MORFIUS X-Rotor pushes counter-drone defense toward reusable high-power microwave interceptors built for swarm economics.

5 min to readJul 29, 2026 · 05h
Ukrainian uncrewed ground vehicle carrying supplies along a damaged frontline road
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Ukraine ground robots turn battlefield endurance into a procurement metric

Ukraine's expanding use of uncrewed ground vehicles shows robotics moving from trial deployments to endurance infrastructure for logistics, evacuation and reconnaissance.

5 min to readJul 28, 2026 · 17h
Consumer drone inspection with radio-frequency certification paperwork and supply-chain audit notes
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FCC drone-ban loopholes show robotics policy needs real supply-chain checks

A Verge investigation into Odyssey Robot and Galiview shows how consumer drone policy can fail when paperwork, test labs and marketplace listings are not tied to real supply-chain verification.

5 min to readJul 28, 2026 · 05h
Military drone aircraft displayed at an aerospace defense event
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Farnborough drone deals show autonomy moving into defense procurement

Farnborough's 2026 airshow was dominated by drones, loyal wingmen, heavy-lift unmanned aircraft, and counter-drone systems, showing autonomy becoming a procurement category rather than a demo track.

4 min to readJul 27, 2026 · 17h
Warehouse robots unloading packages from a trailer and stacking mixed cases onto pallets
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Pickle and Ambi connect warehouse robots into an inbound logistics line

Pickle Robot and Ambi Robotics have integrated trailer unloading with AI palletizing, showing physical AI moving from single-task demos toward connected warehouse workflows.

4 min to readJul 27, 2026 · 05h
Editorial cover for India's Bhargavastra push shows counter-drone defense moving to saturation fire
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India's Bhargavastra push shows counter-drone defense moving to saturation fire

India's reported Bhargavastra counter-drone system points to a wider shift in autonomy defense: cheap drone swarms are forcing militaries to combine sensors, missiles, rockets, and rapid-fire engagement logic.

4 min to readJul 26, 2026 · 17h
Autonomous public safety drone launching from a dock for first responder operations
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Skydio's Blue UAS clearance makes drone-as-first-responder easier to procure

Skydio X10, Dock for X10, and R10 joining the Blue UAS Cleared List turns cybersecurity validation into a procurement accelerator for public-safety drone programs.

4 min to readJul 26, 2026 · 05h
Editorial image for Farnborough's drone deals show loyal-wingman aircraft moving from concept to procurement
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Farnborough's drone deals show loyal-wingman aircraft moving from concept to procurement

Defense announcements at Farnborough put autonomous aircraft, loyal wingman drones, heavy-lift systems, and drone-carried weapons at the center of procurement planning.

3 min to readJul 25, 2026 · 19h
Autonomous drone and ground robot operations map for contested terrain.
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Ukraine's war-robot surge is turning autonomy into battlefield doctrine instead of a prototype category

Ukraine's expanding use of drones, ground robots and AI-enabled interceptors shows how uncrewed systems are becoming a daily operating layer in modern conflict.

3 min to readJul 23, 2026 · 17h
Robotics simulation workspace showing virtual sensors, robot arms, and drone development tools.
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Viam's free simulation-first robotics course points to a broader push to make drone and robot development less dependent on scarce hardware access

Robotics 24/7 reports that Viam is launching Viam 101, a free self-paced robotics course built so engineers can learn the platform in simulation before touching hardware.

4 min to readJul 23, 2026 · 09h
Autonomous robotics deployment visual representing commercial robot operations.
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Robot.com's R-noid launch shows humanoid robotics shifting toward deployable labor systems

Robot.com launched R-noid with FieldAI, Physical Intelligence, Formic and Nvidia support, positioning humanoids as weeks-to-deploy tools for logistics and service work.

3 min to readJul 22, 2026 · 17h