Analysis / Defence
Europe's counter-drone spending is outpacing its doctrine
Airbase incursions have triggered a €4bn procurement wave for counter-UAS systems. The hard part — deciding who is allowed to shoot what down, and when — is lagging badly.
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Features & Analysis
Long-form reporting, market intelligence, interviews and technology explainers — the depth behind the headlines.
Intelligence / Robotics
Industry intelligence: what humanoid pilots actually cost
Autonomous Systems gathered deployment data from eleven warehouse humanoid pilots. The headline: uptime is improving fast, but integration costs still dwarf the robot itself.
Feature / Machine Vision
The camera that never blinks: event vision comes to the production line
Neuromorphic cameras that report change rather than frames are finding their killer application in high-speed inspection — and quietly rewriting the machine vision playbook.
Interview / Maritime
Interview: Ingrid Solberg on scaling maritime autonomy past the pilot trap
HarbourMind's chief executive on retrofits versus newbuilds, the operator-to-vessel ratio that makes the business case, and why the IMO's timeline doesn't worry her.
Analysis / AI
The edge inference chip wars reach the factory floor
A new generation of neural processors is being designed for robots rather than phones. We map the contenders fighting to become the default brain of industrial autonomy.
Explainer / Vehicles
Explainer: what 'teleassist' actually means — and why every AV company depends on it
No autonomous vehicle fleet operates without remote humans. Understanding the difference between teleoperation, teleassist and supervision is essential to reading the industry honestly.
Feature / Maritime
The robots beneath the turbines: underwater autonomy finds its market offshore
Resident underwater vehicles that live on the seabed are replacing dive crews and survey ships across offshore wind farms — and the operating model is spreading to oil, gas and telecoms.
Partner content
Partner content: how predictive maintenance is cutting drone fleet downtime by 40%
Fleet operators are moving from scheduled servicing to condition-based maintenance. Vertex Dynamics explains the data pipeline behind its 40% downtime reduction.
Explainer / Machine Vision
Explainer: foundation models are eating classical machine vision
Zero-shot inspection models are replacing hand-tuned vision pipelines that took decades to build. Here's what changes, what doesn't, and what to ask your vendor.
Feature / Defence
Resupply by swarm: inside the military logistics revolution nobody parades
Uncrewed aerial resupply has quietly become one of the most consequential applications of drone swarms — moving blood, batteries and ammunition to places no truck convoy should go.
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