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The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has signed a support and sustainment contract with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. for logistics and maintenance of the Protector RG Mk1 Remotely Piloted Aircraft system.

The contract — known as the UK Protector Availability and Support Solution or UK PASS — will provide ongoing support for the new...

Swarms of drones are evolving beyond surveillance and becoming vital tools for civil protection, serving as agents of societal good.

As climate-related disasters grow more frequent and urban infrastructure more complex, cities and public sector agencies need tools that are faster, smarter, and more reliable to both prevent and manage crises.

A swarm...

Vast Data, which offers an AI-friendly data storage platform, is in the market to raise a new round at a giant leap in valuation.

Earlier this year, the 9-year-old company was seeking a valuation of around $25 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal. Should it achieve that, it would be a massive jump from its $9 billion Series E...

–Skyways, a designer and manufacturer of long-range autonomous unmanned cargo aircraft systems, announced that it has received an award for a total amount of $37 million from the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) AFWERX to transition its existing V3 aircraft from prototype to full-rate production.

With the funding, Skyways will continue building its...

UR&s Direct Torque Control interface applies to both the e-Series and UR Series and is supported by PolyScope 5 and PolyScope X. | Source: Universal Robots

Universal Robots has announced early access to its Direct Torque Control technology for collaborative robots. The technology gives researchers and developers real-time control of all the...

Let’s be honest: Most events aren’t built for VCs — they’re built around VCs. Panels, keynotes, maybe a few startups worth watching, and a sea of business cards you’ll forget by dinner.

A Technology NewsRoom All Stage 2025 flips that script, when we fill up Boston’s SoWa Power Station on July 15. This isn’t just a chance to speak onstage and bounce...

At the recently held MADEX2025 International Maritime Defense Exhibition in Busan, South Korea, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries unveiled for the first time a conceptual design model of a new drone carrier called HCX-23 Plus.

Compared with the Turkish Anadolu drone carrier, which was a “half-baked” aircraft carrier, the HCX-23 Plus launched by...

Humanoid and cobot developers can use NVIDIA&s full-stack safety platform. Source: NVIDIA

At its GPU Technology Conference, or GTC in Paris today, NVIDIA Corp. announced new tools for applying artificial intelligence to the development of robots, self-driving cars, and smart cities. The company claimed that European manufacturers are racing...

Tech and startup events have a formula. You know it. We know it. We’ve all done it. But A Technology NewsRoom All Stage 2025, which we’re hosting July 15 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston, is designed to break out of that rinse-and-repeat model — and focus on what early-stage startups actually need to know, right now.

Plus, you can still get some...

An autonomous drone carrying water to help extinguish a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada might encounter swirling Santa Ana winds that threaten to push it off course. Rapidly adapting to these unknown disturbances inflight presents an enormous challenge for the drone’s flight control system.

To help such a drone stay on target, MIT researchers...

1X Technologies has introduced Redwood, an artificial intelligence model designed for its humanoid, NEO. The company said Redwood enables NEO to perform household tasks autonomously.

Redwood is intended to allow NEO robot to move, perceive, and interact within home environments. 1X said the AI model was trained on real-world data and is designed to...

Hosting a Side Event around A Technology NewsRoom All Stage 2025 in Boston? Today is your last chance to get on the official calendar — and it’s not just for the day of our All Stage event on July 15. You can book a time during our full All Stage Week, from July 13 to 19, by sending in a submission right here.

Whether it’s a happy hour, breakfast s...

Wing said its drones use a dual-propulsion system that includes vertical lift motors for takeoff and landing, and separate cruise motors for long-range flights. | Source: Wing

Walmart Inc., with the help of Wing Aviation LLC, last week said it is taking its drone delivery service to five new cities: Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Houston; Orlando; and...

Enterprise AI company Glean announced on Tuesday that it has raised a $150 million Series F led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation. This comes less than a year after its $260 million Series E, announced in September, at a $4.6 billion valuation, which was double the valuation from its February 2024 raise.

Since early 2024, Glean...

WTWH Media, producer of The Robot Report and the Robotics Summit - Expo, invites you to submit a presentation to be considered for RoboBusiness 2025, which will be held on Oct. 15 and 16 in Santa Clara, Calif. The event was founded in 2004.

In addition to enabling tech and robotics development, RoboBusiness focuses on investments and business...

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Due to overwhelming demand, we’re extending the deadline to apply for Startup Battlefield 200 at A Technology NewsRoom Disrupt 2025. You now have 7 more days to make your move.

This is your shot at Disrupt’s most competitive, highest-visibility startup program. A launchpad that has changed the trajectory of hundreds of c...

On Thursday, Spanish startup Multiverse Computing announced that it raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million (about $215 million) on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.”

CompactifAI is a quantum-computing inspired compression technology that is capable of reducing the size of LLMs by up to 95% without impacting model...

Dutch payments firm Adyen now has a market cap of over $61 billion, but that didn’t stop its co-founder Arnout Schuijff from stepping down in 2021 to focus on his new startup, Tebi.

Now an Amsterdam-based fintech startup with 35 employees, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one...

The NHS hopes to bring the benefits of robotic surgery, like faster recovery and fewer complications, to more people in the coming years. | Source: Adobe Stock

The National Health Society (NHS) of England announced today that millions of patients will benefit from robotic surgery over the next decade as part of its efforts to cut waiting times. By...

Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday.

The funding round included angel investors Sam Altman and Max Altman, both returning investors, in addition to VC firms like Pelion Venture Partners and Offline Ventures, among others.

This brings the company’s total funding t...

The UK Ministry of Defence is seeking industry input for a new rapid-launch drone system under “Project VOLLEY”, aiming to field multiple mobile launchers capable of deploying five drones in under four minutes – with each drone launched at one-minute intervals.

Described in a newly published Prior Information Notice, the MOD states the requirement...

Wandercraft&s person exoskeleton, Eve, offers upright motion and walking independence for people with severe mobility disabilities. | Source: Wandercraft

Wandercraft has raised $75 million in Series D funding. The French robotics company said the new funding will help it commercialize the Eve self-balancing personal exoskeleton as early as...

The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) is a federal laboratory within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate.

Located in New York City, NUSTL is the only national laboratory focused exclusively on supporting the capabilities of federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial responders to...