In case you haven’t had a keen eye trained on Ukraine this summer, deep strike is quite the hot topic right now. Basically, companies like Fire Point have shown that lower-cost, autonomous deep strike weapons (like, with ranges well above 200 kilometers) can inflict oodles of damage deep in adversarial territory—especially when you train them […]
We spend a lot of time here at Tectonic talking about the baby-tank flavor of robots, but robots of the humanoid variety get a whole lot less airtime. That changes today. This morning, Germany-based humanoid robot company Minerva Humanoids (fitting) emerged from stealth with $10M in pre-seed funding led by General Catalyst. The company’s robot—called […]
Tectonic met with the people at the heart of Ukraine’s defense tech industry during a trip to Kyiv.
Tectonic met with the people at the heart of Ukraine’s defense tech industry during a trip to Kyiv.
You know what’s better than a drone boat? A big ol’ drone boat with some BFMs (big f*cking missiles) strapped on board. Luckily, the dudes (and dudettes) over at STARK have taken this lesson to heart. This morning, the European defense tech darling unveiled a new 12 m variant of its Vanta USV (yes, they […]
All those shiny fun boats, drones, interceptors, and missiles you guys make are fun and all, but they’re not all that helpful if they don’t have reliable comms to, like, tell them where to go. Luckily, Sweden-based TERASi is here to help—and they’ve now got a whole new pile of cash to help them do […]
Turns out loyal wingmen aren’t just for fighter jets.
The European autonomy giant’s maritime business is launching with two autonomous maritime vehicles: Seavex and Subvex.
Lock in, y’all. We’re getting nerdy today. This morning, Paris-based Arlequin AI announced that it’s raised a €28M ($32.55M) Series A to scale its AI architecture based on topological neural networks (TNNs)—non-LLM AI models designed to analyze large, interconnected, complex sets of data. Arlequin CEO and cofounder Hugo Micheron told Tectonic that the company will […]
We told you. Lasers really are so hot right now. This morning, German directed-energy startup Ground A announced that it raised a €9.1M ($10M) pre-seed round, just eight-ish months after the company was founded. Ground A co-founder and CEO Tobias Brune told Tectonic that they’ll use the money to finalize their flagship laser cUAS system—the […]
