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After performing an autonomous barrel roll on May 31, 2024, Bayraktar TB2 has now broken new ground in global aviation by successfully completing an autonomous spin recovery manoeuvre.

Achievement

During test flights, the Bayraktar TB2 UCAV successfully completed an autonomous spin recovery manoeuvre The aircraft was deliberately put into a spin...

Pacific Fusion made a splash in October when it emerged from stealth with a $900 million Series A and a founding team led by a scientist who is most widely known for his work on the Human Genome Project.

Now, the startup is revealing the physics that underpin its plans to build a fusion reactor.

“We’re publishing our detailed technical roadmap,” Will...

– A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc., an American aerospace and engineering company, has announced it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 12,258,153 B2 for its portfolio of A2Z AirDocks. Granted on March 25, 2025, the patent covers a novel method for automatically recharging commercial drone systems from an elevated drone docking station.

Combined with the...

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From June 1 to June 7, A Technology NewsRoom invites startups, investors, and builders to...

Notion released Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client for Gmail that integrates with the rest of Notion’s workflow management platform, on Tuesday.

Notion Mail connects to Notion users’ Gmail accounts and uses AI to help users organize their emails, draft responses, schedule meetings, and search across messages. Any Notion user can sign up, and N...

The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Sunday (April 13, 2025) announced the successful trial of a Mk-II(A) Laser- Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) system “mastering the technology of disabling missiles, drones and smaller projectiles.”

The success has put India in the exclusive and limited club of nations, which are...

The application to speak at A Technology NewsRoom All Stage closes this Friday, April 18 — don’t miss your chance to share hard-won insights with 1,200+ startup founders and VCs. If you’ve been in the trenches and cracked tough growth problems, now’s the time to step up and share your scaling strategies onstage at TC All Stage, happening July 15 in...

– Turkish Aerospace Industries has tested its ANKA III stealth combat drone by launching a Super Şimşek jet-powered decoy, designed to mimic fighter jets and deceive enemy radar, marking progress in Turkey’s effort to pair unmanned systems with piloted aircraft during combat missions, the company announced on X .

The test occurred at an altitude of...

Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. | Source: Kodiak Robotics

Kodiak Robotics Inc. yesterday announced that it will be going public via a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The developer of AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology agreed to be acquired by Ares...

Fusion startups have a tough row to hoe. Their mission? To create a new kind of power plant that produces more energy than it consumes — something no one has ever done with fusion energy before. That means proving their technology works, showing it can be scaled up, and convincing investors it can all be done profitably. That’s already a tall ord...

– Epirus has announced the introduction of Leonidas H2O, a, high-energy, high-power microwave (HPM) system developed to counter boat motors, unmanned surface vessels (USV) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The system is built using the scalable Leonidas energy-based, high-power microwave technology platform.

Leonidas H2O demonstrated effectivity...

Experts have estimated that 16.9 million lives, nearly one-third of all deaths worldwide, are lost annually from conditions requiring surgical care, according to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. Around 320 million more surgical procedures need to be performed to close this gap.

Remote surgery using robotics could help alleviate this problem...

Xaba says its software can enable autonomous programming for industrial robots and 3D printing. Source: Xaba

In addition to mobile robots and drones, industrial automation can benefit from recent advances in artificial intelligence. Xaba Inc. said it has been building &synthetic brains for industrial robots with zero code.& The company...

Boumarang has added surface and subsurface robots to its drone lineup. Source: Wavedrone

Boumarang Inc., a leader in hydrogen-powered autonomous aerial drones, last week said it has acquired all intellectual property rights to the Wavedrone platform from Shore House IVF, a technology developer based in the Faroe Islands.

&This acquisition...

TUV SUD has audited the Safety Case Evaluation and functional safety for Gatik&s self-driving trucks. Source: Gatik

Gatik AI Inc. aims to set the bar high for autonomous truck safety. The company today announcing that it has received independent validation for the Safety Case Evaluation and Functional Safety phases of its Safety Assessment...

ForwardX&s new facility will dedicate areas to building different types of robots, which it said will ensure quality control. | Source: ForwardX

ForwardX Technology Co. this week unveiled its new robotics factory, which will manage its entire production process, from assembly to testing. The Beijing, China-based company said this underscores...

Rippling’s efforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz have been significantly complicated by the fact that Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, according to internal correspondence seen by A Technology NewsRoom.

The UAE is a country with a reputation of being a safe haven for those wanting to avoid extradition.

Rippling is trying to serve Bouaziz as...

Demand for solar energy in power-starved Nigeria has soared in the last decade thanks to worsening grid reliability and rising fuel costs. That’s drawn investor interest to Arnergy, a clean tech startup meeting that need. The company just raised a $15 million Series B extension (on top of a $3 million B1 round last year), bringing its total for...

DeepSeek AI, a prominent player in the large language model arena, has recently published a research paper detailing a new technique aimed at enhancing the scalability of general reward models (GRMs) during the inference phase. Simultaneously, the company has hinted at the imminent arrival of its next-generation model, R2, building anticipation...

Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 — so much so that CEO Elon Musk said his company was weeks away from collapsing. That near-death experience helped spawn a whole new company called Atomic that’s built around using AI to streamline supply chains.

Co-founded by former Tesla employees Michael Rossiter and...

Just a year after the initial explosion of interest in AI video generation, the competitive landscape is reportedly undergoing a significant transformation. The focus is shifting from simply achieving video generation capabilities to the critical challenge of demonstrating profitability. This evolution appears to be eroding the once seemingly...