Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
MARTAC adds SEA.AI machine vision to USV sensor architecture
- Onboard AI classifies contacts and reports object type, heading and proximity in real time rather than sending only raw camera footage.
- The visual intelligence complements radar and AIS, including contacts that do not broadcast an AIS identity.
Bot Auto selects Lenovo AD1 for production driverless trucks
- The controller uses dual DRIVE AGX Thor compute domains and dual safety controllers with independent primary and backup power.
- Bot Auto reports approximately 350 commercial loads per month across Texas and 270% revenue growth between May and August 2026.
- The expected autonomy hardware bill of materials is approximately $50,000 per truck, including compute and sensors.
AM General announces XTEND aerial-robot integration for its autonomous UGV
- The UGV carries the XOS-powered NEST launch pod and is set to display a SCORPIO 1000 system for reconnaissance in complex or GPS-denied environments.
- The JLTV A2 display will combine the Samson 30 mm remote weapon station with Iron Wasp, an autonomous counter-drone system carried by the vehicle.
- The configurations are scheduled for AUSA on October 12–14 in Washington, D.C.; NEST provides a mobile launch point that moves aerial robots closer to the mission area.
GlobalFoundries outlines FDX Fusion Physical AI platform and Dresden expansion
- Demonstrator silicon is targeted for early 2027, followed by an initial process design kit in mid-2027.
- GF expects seven-nanometer-class digital performance and more than twice the density of first-generation FDX.
- The €1.1 billion SPRINT expansion reached topping-out and targets annual Dresden capacity above one million 300mm wafers by the end of 2028.
FireFly reports more than 150,000 acres mowed autonomously
- Cumulative mowing acreage doubled over the five months since May.
- It described customer operation across 33 US states as well as Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada.
- QuickPlan course mapping, over-the-air software updates and field support accompany the operating fleet.
Chef Robotics adopts NVIDIA simulation and motion planning for food assembly
- Digital twins test robotic cells against variations in ingredients, containers, utensils and production-line layouts before installation.
- GPU-accelerated motion planning supports piece picking, multi-deposit assembly and coordinated robot lines in cluttered environments.
- Chef says customer deployments achieve up to 60% higher labour productivity.
Kodiak AI completes September safety validation work, lifting highway readiness to 96%
- The measure tracks safety-case claims and supporting evidence that are materially complete; it stood at 93% at the end of August.
- September progress included hazard analyses for fallback systems and further evidence from adversarial review of the safety argument.
- Remaining work includes probabilistic risk assessment, launch-vehicle verification and demonstrations of safe operation at highway speeds.
Waymo updates safety analysis to 270M fully autonomous miles
- Waymo reports 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than its matched human-driver benchmark across Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco.
- It reports 95% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes, measured regardless of fault.
- The analysis estimates 841 fewer injury-causing crashes than the human benchmark over the covered mileage.
Gogo and Insitu test Galileo HDX on Group 3 UAS
- The configuration supports command-and-control connectivity and backhaul of sensor data over satellite links.
- The terminal was modified for the Integrator airframe rather than presented as a fleet-wide standard configuration.
- The work extends Galileo HDX beyond its established business-aviation market into special-missions UAS connectivity.