AI Defense & Security Hardware
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Asylon’s DroneDog turns Boston Dynamics’ Spot into a 24/7 security guard for $150K
Asylon Robotics bolted a custom payload onto Boston Dynamics’ Spot and shipped it as DroneDog — a four-legged security robot now patrolling construction sites, substations and warehouses without a handler in sight. The Hardware A yellow Spot with a brain transplant. The PupPack adds a 20x optical thermal camera, AI/ML classifiers for humans and vehicles,… Continue reading
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Ring Battery Doorbell Pro (2nd Gen) 4K ships April 29 with an open SDK for AI agents
Amazon’s Ring just made the first 4K battery doorbell, and quietly slipped a developer SDK alongside it. Available April 29 for $250, the Ring Battery Doorbell Pro (2nd Gen) 4K is the first piece of doorbell hardware aimed at agents, not just homeowners. What’s actually in the box A wire-free smart doorbell with Retinal 4K… Continue reading
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Anduril YFQ-44A Fury flies at Edwards AFB — and a maintainer launched it from a laptop
The week of April 5, Anduril delivered the first YFQ-44A Fury to the USAF Experimental Operations Unit at Edwards AFB. Days later, EOU maintainers — not test pilots — ran a full sortie: launch, recover, in-flight retasking, the works. That’s the Air Force quietly taking the leash off Anduril’s robot wingman. The hardware Fury is… Continue reading
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Northrop Grumman Lumberjack flew its first end-to-end autonomous mission on Palantir’s Maven
Northrop Grumman’s Lumberjack delivered what defense AI shops have been promising. At Operation Lethal Eagle in early April, the 101st Airborne ran it through a full autonomous mission cycle — sense, decide, recommend, strike — with Palantir’s Maven Smart System in the loop instead of a human pilot. What the hardware actually is Lumberjack is… Continue reading
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Reolink OMVI X16 + Reolink AI Box at CES 2026: cloud-free AI surveillance, finally hackable
Reolink rolled into CES 2026 with two pieces of hardware that pair up. The OMVI X16 PoE is a 24MP triple-lens security camera — a 16MP dual-lens panoramic shooter covering 180°, plus an 8MP PTZ lens with 16× optical zoom and 360° endless pan. Spot motion on the panoramic side and the PTZ automatically locks… Continue reading
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SS Innovations Vimana Aero Drone System lands two 7-DOF arms next to battlefield casualties
Indian-listed SS Innovations (Nasdaq: SSII) unveiled Vimana Aero on April 23 at SMRSC 2026 in New Delhi — 1,600 surgeons in the room, 1,800 more dialing in from 19 countries. Nobody has built this exact thing before. Hardware that flies and operates A heavy autonomous drone carrying two 7-DOF mini arms with 5mm surgical instruments.… Continue reading
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Eufy Video Doorbell S4 ships Q1 at $279 with 180° AI tracking and no subscription fee
Anker’s Eufy pulled the CES 2026 move Ring didn’t — a doorbell that sees the whole porch, recognizes your packages, and doesn’t charge monthly for it. The S4 is a smart doorbell camera (edge AI, not cloud-first), $279.99 / £229, shipping Q1 2026 through eufy.com. PetaPixel’s April 21 data piece pegged 39% of US households… Continue reading
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Reliable Robotics Autonomous Cessna 208B: 200+ orders, $160M raised, first pilotless cargo route launches this summer
Reliable Robotics closed a $160M round on April 21, Nimble Partners leading, with Boeing AE Ventures, RTX Ventures, and Sumitomo Presidio on the cap table. Valuation is nudging $1B. Bloomberg, DroneXL, and AIN all ran it the same day. The hardware Not a new airframe. Reliable’s Autonomy System (RAS) is a retrofit kit that bolts… Continue reading
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Firefly CQ38W AI Security Camera (RV1126B / RK3576) puts a 2B-param LLM inside a $149 IP67 box
CNX Software dropped the spec sheet on April 20 and the embedded crowd hasn’t shut up about it. Two SKUs share one IP67 enclosure: the CQ38W-1126B runs Rockchip’s RV1126B with a 3 TOPS NPU, the CQ38W-3576 swaps in an octa-core RK3576J/M with 6 TOPS. The big one ships for $149. Why this is a VLM-camera… Continue reading
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MGI / Auterion TigerShark: first flight of a 1,000 km strike UAV running Ukraine’s drone stack
MGI Engineering in the UK and Auterion in Switzerland hit first flight on the TigerShark on April 1, 2026. It’s an autonomous long-range strike UAV — think of it as Europe’s answer to the question “what if NATO had its own Shahed, but smarter and software-defined.” Defense-tech Twitter has been picking it apart all month… Continue reading
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