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 […]
Military AI is going on a little Eurotrip, y’all. This morning, AI-for-defense hotshot Striveworks announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s scored a $9.75M contract with the US Army in support of Task Force RAVEN, the “Army effort to put AI agents to work in European operations.” Under the contract, US soldiers in […]
After years of inertia, the long-consolidated and constrained solid rocket motor (SRM) industry seems to be finally being dragged into the future by a few startups, some fancy advanced manufacturing tech, and a military desperate to shore up its shrinking munitions stockpile. And now, it looks like the Navy is making a serious bet on […]
Aventra has had a busy, busy year. Since coming out stealth with a $3.5M seed round last October, the Virginia-based startup has delivered hundreds of its high-altitude balloon-dropped glide bombs to US and NATO customers, doubled revenue (that’s production revenue, not RDT&E funding), and raised a nice chunk of new capital—$17.5M, to be exact, Aventra […]
Looks like the operators are going high-tech, y’all. This morning, peer-to-peer data transfer company Ditto announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it scored a $17M APFIT contract with USSOCOM to “[field the] Ditto platform across USSOCOM, enabling real-time data sharing between humans and autonomous systems operating at the tactical edge.” In real terms? […]
Powerus may have just rung the bell at the Nasdaq, but they’re not resting on their laurels.
Space is no longer a sanctuary. Case in point, U.S. Space Command’s Space Warfighting Environment 2040 describes a future in which space is more crowded, contested, and central to military operations, with contested space becoming the baseline rather than the exception. The U.S. Space Force’s Future Operating Environment 2040 similarly anticipates continuous competition across cyber, […]
After coming out of pretty much nowhere earlier this year, Powerus has notched headline after headline. But yesterday, the Florida-based drone startup made its biggest power play yet— ringing the bell on the Nasdaq to start trading as a public company. The company first announced plans to go public back in March via a slightly […]
The two companies have worked together “for several years,” Anduril’s maritime strategy chief told Tectonic.
In case you didn’t catch Secretary Hegseth’s State of the Force address yesterday, the US military is going all in on drones of all shapes and sizes, from big aircraft and boats all the way down to teeny-tiny air and ground vehicles. And some people are taking teeny-tiny very seriously: Swarmbotics AI might make the […]
