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Drone robotics coverage sits underneath the finished product: the autonomy, sensing and manufacturing systems that make a drone work, or that stretch what a drone even looks like.
Sensing research is finding real alternatives to cameras and LiDAR: a Duke University drone tracks another drone using only its sound, an autonomy approach that keeps working when visual tracking is blocked or when a target is actively trying to avoid detection.
The manufacturing side of robotics matters just as much as the flying hardware. Corvus Robotics drones cut GNC backorders to 98 a day, a production-automation story about the supply chain behind drone components rather than about any single finished aircraft.
Experimental builds outside the standard rotor-and-camera format get coverage too: Cuddle-Fish is a soft, floating helium robot built to keep you company, a project that pushes the definition of “drone” well past its usual boundaries. The broader drone technology desk and artificial intelligence desk cover related autonomy work. Every drone robotics story is in the feed below.
Last updated October 1, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.
Hegseth ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command for Oct. 1, 2027. The memo names no commander, no budget, and needs a law Congress hasn't passed.
Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps flies explosive ground robots over the front under heavy bomber drones, and credits the tactic with 48 square miles retaken.
Fired as defense minister in July, the man behind Ukraine's Army of Drones launched an Army of Robots and set a six-month target for a humanoid kill.
Livox's Mid-360L halves the Mid-360's point rate and trades 15° of vertical view for a cheaper robot LiDAR. Livox has not published a price.
Nasdaq-listed Swarmer, chaired by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, is buying Ukraine's Ratel Robotics for up to $224 million, mostly in stock.
Aviv Shapira signed XTEND's JFB closing during a DroneXL interview. XTND trades on the NYSE Friday, Gauntlet II unscored. 'I think we did good,' he says.
XTEND AI Robotics starts trading on the NYSE as XTND on September 4. The Pentagon has not yet scored the Gauntlet II contest the valuation rests on.
Duke's SonicFly follower quadcopter chases a leader drone with a 10-gram microphone array, no GPS sharing, no radio link, and no camera.
A Duke University drone tracks another drone using only its sound, an autonomy approach that doesn't depend on cameras or LiDAR at all, useful in situations where visual tracking is blocked or where a target drone is specifically trying to avoid visual detection.
Yes. Corvus Robotics drones cut GNC backorders to 98 a day, a supply-chain and manufacturing robotics story rather than a story about a specific consumer or enterprise drone product, reflecting how automation affects the whole production pipeline, not just the finished aircraft.
Genuinely novel designs outside the standard quadcopter mold. Cuddle-Fish is a soft, floating helium robot built to keep you company, an experimental robotics project that stretches what counts as a drone well past the conventional camera-and-rotors format.
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