Self-Driving & Autonomous Hardware
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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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AeroVironment Mayhem 10: a 100 km launched-effects drone with a published payload interface
AeroVironment pulled the cover off Mayhem 10 at AAAA 2026 in Nashville on April 15. It’s the first product in the new Mayhem family and the clearest signal yet that Launched Effects is what comes after Switchblade. The hardware Mayhem 10 is a 29-pound airframe, 42 pounds fully loaded, hauling a 10-pound payload. Cruise at… Continue reading
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Noblelift NobleOne AI Forklift Platform Turns Every Forklift Into a Connected Command Center
Warehouses have AMRs, autonomous sweepers, and humanoid robots. But the forklift — the thing that moves 90% of goods inside a facility — has been stuck in the analog age. Noblelift’s answer: bolt AI directly onto the truck. NobleOne, unveiled at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta this week, is the first fully integrated AI forklift platform… Continue reading
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$270M for a 42-Pound Drone: How Kraus Hamdani K1000ULE Won the Air Force’s Biggest ISR Bet
75 hours airborne. No refueling. A 42.5-pound solar-powered drone at 20,000 feet while one operator controls the swarm. On April 7, AFCENT handed Kraus Hamdani a $270 million contract for the K1000ULE — its largest ultra-long-endurance ISR drone order. The Hardware Fixed-wing, Group 2 drone. 16.5-foot wingspan, all-electric propulsion, lithium-ion batteries recharged by solar cells… Continue reading
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DJI Lito (Lito 1 & Lito X1): The Last DJI Drones to Clear FCC Before the Ban
DJI drops a brand-new sub-250g drone line on April 23 — and the timing matters more than the specs. What Is the DJI Lito? Two foldable consumer AI drones. The Lito 1 (~$330) is the entry-level pick replacing the Mini 4K: 22 GB storage, 30-min flight time, and basic intelligent flight modes. The Lito X1… Continue reading
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Tennant X16 SWEEP: An 1,800-lb Autonomous Sweeper That Never Asks for a Break
Tennant, the 154-year-old cleaning equipment company, just shipped its first fully autonomous industrial sweeper — the X16 SWEEP. Unveiled at MODEX 2026 on April 7, this is an 816 kg robot that sweeps up to 105,000 sq ft per hour, runs six hours on lithium-ion batteries, and docks itself to charge when done. No human… Continue reading
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Maximo Solar Robot Fleet Hits 100 MW — the First AI Robot Fleet to Build Grid-Scale Solar
Four robots, 100 megawatts, 18,000 homes powered. AES’s Maximo 3.0 autonomous solar installation robots just completed the world’s first grid-scale solar buildout by an AI-driven fleet — at the 1 GW+ Bellefield complex in Kern County, California. The Hardware Each Maximo unit is a purpose-built robot that uses cameras, sensors, and computer vision neural networks… Continue reading
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Skydio Dock + X10: U.S. Air Force Drops $9M on Autonomous Drone Patrols Across Middle East Bases
USAFCENT just ordered over $9 million worth of Skydio Dock + X10 systems for its Middle East airbases. This is one of the largest international deployments of autonomous drone infrastructure by the U.S. Air Force — and the hardware is wild. What You’re Looking At Skydio Dock is a “drone-in-a-box” station. The X10 drone sits… Continue reading
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Palmer Luckey Wants Your Python Code to Fly a Drone at 100 mph — Anduril AI Grand Prix Is Now Open
Anduril just opened registration for the AI Grand Prix, a $500,000 autonomous drone racing competition where zero human pilots are allowed. You write Python. The drone flies. That’s it. What’s the Hardware Every team races the same Neros Technologies drone — no hardware mods, no custom builds. The drones pack a DCL AI vector module… Continue reading
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Tesla Cybercab Hits Production in Austin — No Steering Wheel, and a Fleet API for Developers
Tesla’s Cybercab is a two-seat autonomous robotaxi with zero manual controls — no steering wheel, no pedals, no mirrors. Runs entirely on cameras and FSD AI. First unit rolled off Giga Texas in February 2026. April is the official production ramp: 60 units spotted at the factory on April 8th. Target: hundreds per week via… Continue reading
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