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March 1, 2026 · Machina Labs announced a $124 million Series C, and the development of its first U.S.-based Intelligent Factory for metal structure production.
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February 10, 2026 · Palladyne AI was awarded a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to make different autonomous systems work together.
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January 25, 2026 · GrayMatter Robotics secured an AFWERX Phase II contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop an AI-powered robotic system for canopy sanding.
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June 11, 2025 · Palladyne AI received additional funding from a U.S. Air Force contract, and recently completed a series of Military Utility Assessment milestones for autonomous engineering projects.
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October 30, 2023 · Aerobotix plans to show a new collaborative mobile robot developed under the U.S. Air Force's SBIR program to inspect aircraft.
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September 29, 2023 · Sarcos Defense has won a U.S. Air Force contract to continue developing software for its Guardian line of robots to enable them to learn from observation.
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June 9, 2023 · PickNik won contracts for failure management and recovery, as well as for task and motion planning for robots in space. NASA is also working with Reliable Robotics on autonomous flight.
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December 6, 2022 · Gecko Robotics has been awarded an SBIR contract to integrate concrete evaluation technology into its crawling robots to aid the rapid modernization of the nuclear triad.
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October 25, 2022 · PickNik Robotics recently won a U.S. Space Force contract for orbital robot arms, a NASA contract for supervised autonomy, and a Colorado AIA grant for space robotics.
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May 30, 2022 · With support from the U.S. Air Force, RISE Robotics is building lightweight technology to help load and unload heavy cargo.
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May 20, 2022 · Sarcos Defense has been awarded a DoD contract to develop a system that can quickly spot, follow, and identify objects. It could also help civilian robotics applications.
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November 24, 2021 · The ARM Institute is seeking project proposals to help the U.S. Air Force improve robotic manipulation and to evaluate education and training programs for robotics and manufacturing.
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September 28, 2021 · RE2 Robotics has received SBIR funding to develop a Mobile Autonomous Aircraft Platform for Sustainment using its mobile manipulators for aircraft inspection and maintenance.
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August 16, 2021 · By applying AI and machine learning to sensing for autonomous systems such as drones and ground robots, Sarcos and BAE plan to improve multi-system communication and coordination.
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May 31, 2021 · The U.S. Department of Defense and militaries around the world are working to improve the endurance, usability, and autonomy of ground robots for explosive ordnance removal and other tasks.
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October 14, 2020 · MAAM program aims to commercialize large additive manufacturing machine for production of large parts for industrial and defense usage.
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July 21, 2020 · The goal of the Challenge Series was to improve the accuracy of model predictions for metal AM, using INCONEL nickel-chromium alloy 625.
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January 17, 2020 · Submission deadline extended to January 31, 2020 .
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November 27, 2019 · Goal of the AFRL AM Challenge Series is to predict the internal structure and resultant performance of metallic components produced by AM.
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