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Anthro Energy partners with EnPower to develop lithium-ion cells in the U.S.

Anthro Energy and EnPower signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop and manufacture high-performance lithium-ion battery cells in the U.S. for robotics, autonomous systems, and defense applications. The partnership combines Anthro's advanced polymer electrolyte technology with EnPower's domestic manufacturing capabilities to create a vertically integrated U.S. battery supply chain, with plans to scale production beyond 750 MWh for applications including drones, unmanned vehicles, and embodied AI systems.

The Robot Report4d ago

The Convergence in Perception Systems from Cars to Robots

This article discusses how perception systems are converging across autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, and humanoids, with all platforms adopting distributed sensor networks and real-time processing architectures similar to automotive systems. The piece emphasizes that perception has evolved from a supporting feature to critical infrastructure in modern robotics, requiring integrated solutions for vision, audio, and tactile sensing with deterministic connectivity, diagnostics, and reliability to operate safely in dynamic, unstructured environments.

The Robot Report5d ago

Banned drones and routers in the US will still get critical updates until 2029

The FCC has extended the deadline for software and firmware updates on banned foreign-made drones and routers until January 1, 2029, allowing devices to receive security patches that mitigate harm to US consumers. The extension pushes back the original cutoff by approximately two years and follows lobbying from the Consumer Technology Association for continued support of previously authorized devices.

Engadget5/9/2026

Robot Talk Episode 155 - Making aerial robots smarter, with Melissa Greeff

Robot Talk Episode 155 features an interview with Melissa Greeff from Queen's University about autonomous navigation and learning systems for aerial robots. Greeff, an Assistant Professor leading the Robora Lab, discusses her research in vision-based navigation, safe learning-based control, and autonomous aerial systems developed through field trials across Canada.

Robohub5/8/2026

WaiV Robotics emerges from stealth to help drones take off and land at sea

WaiV Robotics emerged from stealth with a $7.5 million seed-funded autonomous landing platform designed to enable drones to safely take off and land from moving ships at sea. The system uses a patent-pending catch-lock-release mechanism combined with AI-driven predictive algorithms to handle the challenges of maritime drone operations, working with any drone without requiring hardware or software modifications.

The Robot Report5/5/2026

Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute developed an ultrasound-based perception system for tiny drones inspired by bat echolocation, enabling navigation in low-visibility environments where cameras and lidar fail. The system combines an acoustic shield that reduces propeller noise with a neural network called Saranga that recovers weak echo signals, allowing small aerial robots to navigate safely in smoke, dust, darkness, and other challenging conditions for search-and-rescue operations.

Robohub4/29/2026

Drones & Robotics AI Summit 2026: Entering the quantum era of autonomy

The Drones & Robotics AI Summit 2026 highlighted major advances in autonomous systems, with Ghost Robotics demonstrating its Vision 60 robotic dog and over $30 billion in venture investment flowing into the sector. Heven AeroTech founder Bentzion Levinson discussed his company's evolution from autonomous fire detection to hydrogen-powered UAVs for defense applications, including partnerships with quantum computing firm IonQ to advance sensing capabilities.

The Robot Report4/20/2026

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones

Lucid Bots, a Charlotte-based robotics company specializing in window-cleaning drones and robots, raised $20 million in Series B funding co-led by Cubit Capital and Idea Fund Partners, bringing total funding to $34 million. The startup, which has accelerated from selling 100 units over five years to approaching 1,000 units, plans to use the capital to scale manufacturing and hiring to meet growing demand from cleaning companies and other infrastructure maintenance customers.

TechCrunch Robotics3/25/2026

Robotaxis and Drones Are Scaling Fast — Profits Can Wait, Apparently

Zoox and Wing are aggressively expanding their autonomous service footprints across multiple cities despite operating in a regulatory gray area with unclear unit economics. This expansion-first strategy reveals a concerning bet that market dominance will precede—and perhaps substitute for—actual business viability.

Creative Robotics3/24/2026Original

The Download: how AI is used for military targeting, and the Pentagon's war on Claude

The article discusses how the US military may use generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Grok to rank targets and recommend strike priorities, with human oversight required for final decisions. It also covers tensions between the Pentagon and Anthropic's Claude over policy concerns, as well as Ukraine's efforts to provide battlefield data for AI training of drones and other autonomous systems.

MIT Technology Review AI3/13/2026

How much wildfire prevention is too much?

The article examines Skyward Wildfire, a Canadian startup using AI-enabled technology and metallic chaff to prevent lightning-sparked wildfires before they ignite. While the company claims it can reduce ignition risk on high-risk days, experts debate whether preventing all lightning strikes is ecologically sound, since fire plays a natural role in many ecosystems and prescribed burns are often more effective at reducing catastrophic wildfire risk.

MIT Technology Review AI3/5/2026

CMU's Robotics Innovation Center Fuels Pittsburgh's New Economic Renaissance

Carnegie Mellon University officially opened its new Robotics Innovation Center, a facility designed to serve as a hub for collaborative robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence research and development. The center features advanced quadruped robots and drone technology, positioning CMU to advance breakthroughs in these fields.

CMU Robotics Institute3/2/2026

Dstl overcome challenges of interoperability with new software

UK defence research organisation Dstl has developed the Single Information Environment (SInfoE) architecture to solve military interoperability challenges, enabling rapid data sharing across radar, satellites, drones, and AI systems. The architecture was successfully demonstrated in July 2024 during the ARCHERON trial, where Royal Navy, Army, and RAF systems were integrated with industry drones, reducing integration time from months to hours while maintaining NATO compatibility standards.

sUAS News1/18/2026

Walmart and Wing Launch Major Drone Delivery Expansion from Houston

Walmart and Wing announced a major expansion of their drone delivery partnership, launching operations from five Walmart locations in the Houston area as part of a plan to add 150 store locations across the southern U.S. The autonomous delivery drones use AI-powered route planning and obstacle avoidance technology, with the partnership already completing hundreds of thousands of missions and approximately 1,000 daily deliveries in existing Dallas/Fort Worth and Atlanta markets.

Drone Life1/16/2026

There's Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security's New Drone Video That We're Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

The Department of Homeland Security posted a promotional video for its new drone program highlighting American air superiority, but the footage inadvertently revealed DHS agents using DJI remote controllers—Chinese-made drones that the Trump administration has officially banned. The embarrassing oversight exposes a contradiction between the government's stated anti-China drone policy and its actual operational practices for homeland security operations.

Futurism1/15/2026

Unifly Completes FAA-Led Detect-and-Avoid Safety Standards Project

Unifly, a Terra Drones subsidiary, has completed FAA-led validation of Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) safety standards for commercial drone operations through the ASSURE A68 project. The project demonstrated how Unifly's UAS Traffic Management (UTM) platform can support collision avoidance capabilities and establish safety thresholds for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations, providing validated technical specifications to inform future regulatory frameworks for autonomous aircraft.

Drone Life1/15/2026

Meteodrones Provide New Data to National Weather Service

Meteomatics has partnered with NOAA's National Mesonet Program to integrate autonomous weather drone data into U.S. National Weather Service forecasts for the first time, collecting atmospheric measurements between 50 and 20,000 feet to fill critical data gaps in the lower atmosphere. A pilot program running from February through April 2026 will deploy Meteodrones from Oklahoma to provide high-resolution temperature, humidity, and wind data to improve forecast accuracy for severe weather, fog, and precipitation events.

Drone Life1/15/2026

One image is all robots need to find their way

Researchers at Skoltech have developed SwarmDiffusion, a lightweight generative AI model that enables robots to navigate unknown environments using only a single image, eliminating the need for traditional mapping and heavy path planning algorithms. The diffusion-based approach can generalize across different robot platforms (drones, quadrupeds, wheeled robots) with minimal platform-specific training data, representing a significant advancement in autonomous navigation using modern AI techniques.

Phys.org Robotics1/8/2026

FAA Adds Two New UAS Test Sites to Advance Drone Integration

The FAA has announced two new UAS Test Sites in Oklahoma and Indiana, marking the first federal drone test ranges added in nearly a decade. These sites will advance research on Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations, autonomous systems, and advanced air mobility technologies, with testing focused on cargo delivery, infrastructure inspection, and emergency response applications.

Drone Life1/14/2026

Kansas, Missouri Funding Counter-UAS at World Cup Events

By Dronelife Features Editor Jim Magill (Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories on efforts to establish new counter-UAS protocols in the U.S. to protect high-profile sporting events and critical infrastructure from the potential threats posed by drones flown by careless or hostile actors. The first installment examined a government push […] The post Kansas, Missouri Funding Counter-UAS at World Cup Events appeared first on DRONELIFE.

Drone Life1/14/2026

Drones Compete to Spot and Extinguish Brushfires

University of Maryland's Crossfire team is competing in an XPrize competition to develop autonomous drones that can rapidly detect and suppress wildfires, with the final round scheduled for June 2026 offering a $3.5 million prize. The competition challenges teams to locate and extinguish fires within 1,000 square kilometers of challenging terrain in under 10 minutes, representing a significant advancement in wildfire response technology. The initiative emerged from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in California and aims to provide firefighting agencies with powerful new autonomous tools.

IEEE Spectrum Robotics12/24/2025

This Khosla-backed startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch

Point One Navigation, a San Francisco-based startup, raised $35 million in Series C funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its valuation to $230 million. The company has developed precise location technology using augmented GNSS, computer vision, and sensor fusion that achieves centimeter-level accuracy for autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, and agricultural equipment, with over 150,000 vehicles already deployed and tenfold growth in manufacturer adoption over the past year.

TechCrunch Robotics11/20/2025

Video Friday: DARPA Challenge Focuses on Heavy-Lift Drones

Results for "Drones"

Anthro Energy partners with EnPower to develop lithium-ion cells in the U.S.

The Convergence in Perception Systems from Cars to Robots

Banned drones and routers in the US will still get critical updates until 2029

Robot Talk Episode 155 - Making aerial robots smarter, with Melissa Greeff

WaiV Robotics emerges from stealth to help drones take off and land at sea

Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats

Drones & Robotics AI Summit 2026: Entering the quantum era of autonomy

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones

Robotaxis and Drones Are Scaling Fast — Profits Can Wait, Apparently

The Download: how AI is used for military targeting, and the Pentagon's war on Claude

How much wildfire prevention is too much?

CMU's Robotics Innovation Center Fuels Pittsburgh's New Economic Renaissance

Dstl overcome challenges of interoperability with new software

Walmart and Wing Launch Major Drone Delivery Expansion from Houston

There's Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security's New Drone Video That We're Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

Unifly Completes FAA-Led Detect-and-Avoid Safety Standards Project

Meteodrones Provide New Data to National Weather Service

One image is all robots need to find their way

FAA Adds Two New UAS Test Sites to Advance Drone Integration

Kansas, Missouri Funding Counter-UAS at World Cup Events

Drones Compete to Spot and Extinguish Brushfires

This Khosla-backed startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch

Video Friday: DARPA Challenge Focuses on Heavy-Lift Drones

Drones and Droids: a co-operative strategy game

Robot Talk Episode 122 - Bio-inspired flying robots, with Jane Pauline Ramos Ramirez

Robotics Institute Developing Drones To Fight Wildfires

How Margarita Chli is using drones to go where people can’t