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Germany: Stark presented the Vanta 24, a roughly 24-metre uncrewed surface vessel aimed at Baltic operations, built with FSG Shipyard.

China: researchers report a reflex layer on a Unitree G1 humanoid that reacts to harmful contact faster than its learned control policy.

United Arab Emirates: the company says the robot is three to five times faster than its predecessor and inspects plant structures without shutting facilities.

A language model reads the operator's instructions, an optimiser assigns tasks, and each vehicle carries on if another fails. Tested in simulation only.

South Korea: the Kosdaq-listed drone maker says it builds Turkish Blitz Teknoloji's Spectrum cameras with local parts for a non-Chinese supply chain.

United States: Johns Hopkins researchers combine a room camera with a humanoid's own camera so a language-model agent can plan tasks; results are mostly from simulation.

United States: the jet-powered, tail-sitting drone is designed to take off and land vertically; Shield AI plans a first flight before the end of the year.

Research: a language model reads the route and an onboard model draws the path; the 1.37 km mission needed two operator command changes.

United States: riders still cannot be picked up or dropped off at Los Angeles International Airport.

Ukraine: the company says the drone team now runs development, production and sales independently.

United States: the Navy will run a demonstration for the Marine Corps' Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System, Increment II, from 25 January to 5 February 2027.

Ukraine: the figure covers installations since January, with 86.65 km added in October.

Turkey: the maker says the round splits into five sub-projectiles; results come from the company's own tests.

Poland: the volunteer rescue service TOPR is piloting DJI's Dock 4 to send a drone to an accident before rescuers leave their base.

Taiwan: the military wants 1,320 one-way attack surface vessels, and parliament has passed a NT$240 billion (US$7.4 billion) drone defence bill.

The comparison is the authors' own; the paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Spain: ten army specialists told a University of Granada researcher that legal and bureaucratic procedures, more than technology, are slowing the shift to FPV attack drones.

United States: the modified Cessna Caravan took off and landed automatically in controlled airspace, supervised remotely, with a safety pilot on board.

United States: the onboard system predicts where a person will go when trees block the view; the source is a 44-second demonstration video.

Turkey: at the Euronaval exhibition MKE unveiled an armed uncrewed surface vessel variant with a payload bay that can carry tube-launched drones.

United States: Defense One reports more than USD 115 million committed to ground-robot projects in fiscal 2026, against 22,000-plus ordered by Ukraine in seven months.

Ukraine: the wheeled robot is meant for logistics and for evacuating damaged equipment, including other ground drones.

Norway: a preventive deployment near the Russian border adds about 30 soldiers; the defence minister says there is no new specific threat.

Research: the control method guarantees the link stays connected, and was tested only in simulation.

France: Naval Group unveiled a 170-metre concept ship built around a mission bay for launching and recovering drones.

South Korea: a state-run research institute says cost, and reliance on jamming, are the main weaknesses.

France: the two firms will develop and test a boat with a 30 kg warhead, 35-knot top speed and up to 200 km range, according to KNDS.

South Korea: the memorandum aims at one operator managing many unmanned systems, using the company's taxi dispatch and route-planning technology.

On a real G1 humanoid it reached 85.7% success against the baseline's 70.0%; with unseen object layouts the gap was 65.7% to 48.6%.

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability, a formal method normally computed offline, runs online in these benchmarks; no physical robot has flown with it yet.

A REMUS 620 vehicle took part in one workflow covering mine detection, classification and neutralisation.

United States: the company says it is not a collaborative combat aircraft, but a much larger reconnaissance and strike wing with hybrid-electric propulsion.

France: the armed forces minister announced the framework at Euronaval and a second deep-sea ROV order.

France and Belgium: a remotely operated four-wheel-steer vehicle concept with a target range of about 400 km and a payload of up to one tonne.

Switzerland: ETH Zurich researchers built a ring-shaped drone frame that deforms in collisions but stays stiff vertically for flight.

Canada and France: UVAD says Falcon, a reusable supersonic aerial target, will fly on two Safran turbojets, with flight tests planned for 2027.

France: backed by EUR 150 million in EU guarantees, organisers reportedly want 30 partnerships over three years in areas including drones.

France: the French procurement agency, Thales and Lacroix plan flight tests of the first prototype in 2027.

United States: the Boston-area startup says its first vehicle, to be shown next year, will carry containerised payloads over long distances with no crew.

Norway: the 50 kg CORAX 600 hovered to photograph seabed targets while a drone boat above it kept track of its position, at the REPMUS exercise in Portugal.

United States: the autonomous cargo boat beaches itself, unloads and leaves; a 15-foot prototype did the full sequence in a demonstration.

Indonesia: the research agency head says the trial is to help prevent forest fires, and hopes it will prove effective.

Ukraine's defence ministry and Brave1 will fund up to four teams building missiles launched from drones to intercept jet-powered Shahed-type drones.

Four configurations share one gun and programmable ammunition, ranging from a containerised version to a radar-guided close-in system.

India: a requirement published in November asks industry to design a large surface vessel for surveillance and attack.

United States: the Boise area is one of three new eligible areas, joining 13 existing ones, according to the Idaho Press.

France: the defence procurement agency says tests in May and June 2026 cleared the drone for French Navy service; this follows the order already published.

Germany: Airbus ended its Wingman concept to focus on a faster-to-field collaborative combat aircraft, aiming at 2032 service.

The method beat the UniVLA baseline's 70.4% on an Astribot S1 arm and scored 91.3% on the LIBERO simulation benchmark.

Russia: the manufacturer says it is already used in the war and gives no range, speed or endurance.

United States: a Purdue-owned Windracers ULTRA flew more than 50 miles beyond the operator's line of sight.

United States: the Velaris platform uses Viasat's L-band network; the agreement follows two years of joint testing.

Taiwan: the company says the 6 m boat can run either a US AI system or its own control software, and claims 50 knots and 600 km range.

United States: Tesla began Robotaxi rides in Fort Worth on 2 November, its seventh city, according to the Fort Worth Report.

China: nearly 90 teams took part; the fastest finisher on the 3.9 km route took 43 minutes 41 seconds.

United States: the deal with Global Ordnance ramps from 10,000 batteries in 2027 to 150,000 in 2029; the plant's site, timeline and funding are not set.

United States: a federal court found Saildrone was unlawfully excluded from the Navy's competition for medium-sized uncrewed surface vessels.

Sweden: the 18-metre boat comes in surveillance, anti-ship and short-range air-defence versions; Sweden is the launch customer.

Ukraine: Russia's Kometa navigation modules use arrays of 16 and now 20 receiving elements to keep satellite navigation working under jamming.

United States: the Office of Strategic Capital signed a conditional loan commitment for drone and component manufacturing; Neros adds USD 165 million of its own equity.

Russia: TASS reports the live demonstration for journalists, with both targets engaged at under 150 m.

Jersey: unauthorised drones disrupted flights on Friday and Saturday evenings, and police now have specialist detection equipment.

The standard, ISO 21423:2026, covers communication among industrial mobile robots, fleet managers and other equipment.

Ukraine: the military intelligence agency HUR published a technical breakdown based on recovered wreckage.

The system picks an uncrewed boat out of the water with no one handling lines; the company reports operational acceptance in rougher seas than current systems.

United States: applications are due 16 November; grant-funded detection systems must share data with the Department of Homeland Security.

Ukraine: the developers say the D-Vision SDR scans 500 megahertz to 8.7 gigahertz and turns drone signals into video.

United States: companies can test drones against GPS jamming and radio interference without entering a competition.

United States: the Reaper carried a 1.2 kg payload at 491 mph, and the run was not officially recorded by Guinness.

United States: the Massachusetts town had passed a drone-delivery bylaw 510-13 weeks earlier.

Japan: Toyota and Waymo plan to start testing and validating autonomous bZ4X vehicles in Japan in 2027, built at Toyota's Takaoka plant.

United States: the maker Ornadyne says other vendors' sensors at the "Game of Drones" event could not identify its O1 as a drone.

France: the Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate ordered four systems of two aircraft each, after an evaluation found the 120 kg drone met requirements.

Brazil: the army technology centre and the company aim for a vehicle-mounted system that detects and shoots down small drones, with a prototype expected in the first half of 2027.

United States: Odin Energetics says it could supply small quantities next year; the US currently has one HMX and RDX plant.

United States: investigators found a NOAA research drone boat was hard to see and inadequately monitored when it collided with a recreational boat in 2024.

Spot moves a 15 kg tire using its own cameras and onboard computing.

Government orders secured, with first deliveries planned this year, the companies say.

A local-only mode retains navigation and obstacle avoidance, techAU reports.

Six robots take on store tasks. The demonstration does not prove continuous autonomy.

Humanoid robots building humanoid robot parts: Schaeffler opened a factory in Taicang, China on Oct 20.

Drone regiment: the Army will set up its own drone regiment from next year, subordinated to the 10th Panzer Division in Veitshöchheim, with drones ranging beyond 500 km plus electronic-warfare capability; the division is earmarked for…

Drone wingman: the Defence Ministry formally told Boeing it will not directly procure the MQ-28 Ghost Bat.

United States: the Pentagon launched a 120-day sprint to field counter-drone armed uncrewed boats, with the Defense Innovation Unit offering USD 40 million in its counter-drone boat challenge.

United States/South Korea: HD Hyundai and Anduril demonstrated their autonomous surface vessel for the US Navy in navigation trials off Long Beach, California.

Australia unveiled weapon payload concepts intended for future integration with the Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle.

Europe: the European Defence Agency's EUR 35.5 million Combat Unmanned Ground Systems project (nine member states, 28 companies, coordinated by Leonardo) held its final demonstration: uncrewed ground vehicles from six nations (from…

United States: at Fort Knox on October 15, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated a team of four autonomous ground vehicles (including an Overland AI vehicle carrying an Anduril attack drone) that scout and hunt…

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division says a tactical drone located a moving ship and landed without GPS or a pilot during summer flight tests.

Uncrewed artillery: the Army is looking at testing an uncrewed artillery system, army and ministry circles confirmed to hartpunkt; the project is in an early phase.

United States: the Defense Innovation Unit announced that orders are in preparation for 60,000 small attack drones from nine companies, following the second flyoff (Gauntlet II, held in August at Fort Carson) of the Drone Dominance…

United States: L3Harris received a three-year contract worth up to USD 60 million to develop a ramjet-powered long-range interceptor against small and medium drones, under the Army's extended-range counter-drone missile program; the…

United States: Special Operations Command awarded six companies contracts to mature small first-person-view attack drones under phase three of its Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone program: Neros (USD 3.1 million), DFA Systems (USD 2.3…

Denmark: the Danish defence acquisition organisation awarded Systematic a contract for a nationwide counter-drone command-and-control capability ready to integrate artificial-intelligence-supported analysis.

Turkey: a Bayraktar Akinci drone fired Roketsan's Lacin munition, which selected its target autonomously with a TV seeker for the first time, in a live-fire test on October 21; two laser-guided MAM-L munitions were also fired and all…

Iran: the army presented the Arash-3 strike drone, with payload raised from about 50 kg to a reported 100-150 kg, AI-assisted guidance and GPS-independent navigation; the Iranian military claims about 2.3 times the damage potential of…

India: the Army began the process to buy three types of drones - tactical drones for surveillance and attack within 10-15 km, one-way attack drones reaching 150 km, and high-altitude drones for long-range precision strikes - citing…

Ukraine’s defence intelligence says Russia increased production of Geran-4 and Geran-5 jet-powered attack drones to 4,000 per month, from about 3,000 in August.

Ukraine's sea drones go international (October 22): at REPMUS, NATO's annual maritime uncrewed-systems exercise in Portugal, Ukrainian-British company UFORCE presented its new MV7.2 and MV7.3 uncrewed boats, designed in Portugal for…

Japan buys Ukrainian interceptors (announced October 10): Japan's defense ministry signed a contract to buy interceptor drones from Ukrainian manufacturer SkyFall, Defense Minister Koizumi said; model, quantity and value undisclosed,…

Taiwan's big drone buy (reported October 17): the navy plans to acquire 280 V-BAT vertical-takeoff reconnaissance drones from Shield AI under a four-year, TWD 36 billion (about USD 1.1 billion) program; with 12 already delivered to the…

Market engagement for an extra-large underwater vehicle accompanies a separate reconnaissance-drone tender.

China (October 13-15): the People's Armed Police showed low-cost, AI-guided interceptor drones designed against small drones at the Great Wall 2026 counterterrorism forum in Beijing, attended by military delegates from 62 countries,…

Morocco arms its drone fleet from the UAE (October 9): the Royal Moroccan Air Force signed a contract with the UAE's EDGE Group at the Marrakech Air Show for Desert Sting 16 glide bombs (23 kg, 12 kg warhead, 15 km range) and Thunder…

Southern Ocean: The first of four Saildrone Explorer uncrewed sailing vessels left Hobart, Tasmania, on 19 September to start a five-year project led by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Columbia…

Turkish drones demonstrated submarine hunting: at the navy's first exercise built entirely around unmanned systems (TURNAs-26, running 19-27 October off Antalya), a long-endurance Aksungur drone dropped sonar buoys into the…

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry approved the Blade interceptor from Phantom Defense for procurement, according to the cited report.

India's army bought drone-tracking radars under a contract worth about 87 million US dollars signed with Bharat Electronics on 21 October; the radars detect and track small drones.

Britain proposes expanding its army drone contract: under a transparency notice reported 26 October, the defence ministry proposes to raise the weight ceiling of its mini-drone contract with Lockheed Martin UK from 20 to 50 kilograms…

Australia, Britain and the United States ran joint underwater-drone trials off California on 21 October: more than 40 crewed and uncrewed systems practised submarine hunting and resupply under attack together, including an extra-large…

Australia's Bluebottle ocean-surveillance drones gained dedicated production capacity: Ocius Technology opened a Sydney plant, reported 26 October, that assembles the solar-and-sail-powered boats for the Australian navy and export…

Wider drone export controls announced on 19 October take effect on 18 November 2026.

Helsing presented an autonomous air-defense system on 26 October: its CONTRA command software merges data from different radar, optical and acoustic sensors into one air picture and assigns each threat to the best-suited defensive weapon.

Production of a German-financed interceptor drone is scaling up in Ukraine: the SPYS interceptor is built there by the German-Ukrainian joint venture of Munich-based Quantum Systems, and production is now being expanded, the company…

Sweden's navy gets year-round uncrewed Baltic Sea surveillance as a service: the defence materiel administration contracted Saildrone to operate four Voyager uncrewed boats for 360 days each, monitoring vessel traffic in Swedish waters…

Israel's Elbit Systems completed its purchase of International Submarine Engineering, announced 20 October.

Thailand's defence ministry received Israeli anti-drone fire-control units and Thai troops have mounted them on their existing rifles after training by the supplier, reported 26 October.

Qatar's state-owned Barzan Holdings formed a joint venture with Ukrainian counter-drone company Carmine Sky to build layered drone air defense, and launched its first family of Qatar-designed drones and uncrewed boats at the Milipol…

South Korea: Korea Aerospace Industries flew its FA-50 fighter in formation with its in-house AAP drone for the first time earlier this month, reported 26 October.

The Bundeswehr has ordered six Tytan Drone Defender systems and two command vehicles to protect mobile forces.

South Korea's defense ministry launched a new Defense Drone Agency at a ceremony in Pocheon on 2 November, Yonhap reported.

Ukraine’s defence ministry says its forces have used heavy aerial drones to evacuate wounded service members, including a test under electronic warfare using AI-based navigation.

The Royal Air Force's Protector RG1 flew its first operational missions on 14-16 October, spending 10 hours tracking a Russian frigate in the English Channel alongside Royal Navy warships and helicopters, British media reported on 31…

An upgraded ZIRKA interceptor drone destroyed a Russian jet-powered Geran-5 drone at 3,500 meters altitude, the interceptor's developer project reported on 2 November, according to lb.ua.

France's defence procurement agency has placed an initial order for the vertical-takeoff version of the Aliaca shipborne drone, Airbus announced on 29 October, after trials in 2024 and 2025.

Three MQ-9A Reaper drones sent by the United States have arrived in Colombia, along with two Black Hawk helicopters, to strengthen operations against armed groups in the country, AsuntosLegales reported on 3 November.

Bundeswehr buys net-catcher drones for base protection: the procurement office signed a contract with ARGUS Interception on 15 October for systems that fly up to an intruding small drone, catch it in a net and set it down on the ground…

France tested a home-grown kamikaze boat within six months: the defence procurement agency took its low-cost SMOKERS uncrewed attack boat from concept to sea trials, with four trial campaigns completed and three boats operated from…

Turkey’s Defence Ministry says the Kalkan vertical-takeoff drone completed its first ocean-condition flight trials from the frigate TCG Gelibolu in the Indian Ocean.

A satellite-link demonstration connects a carrier control station to a distant MQ-25 test asset.

EDGE announced on 26 October that it had completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in Italian engine maker CMD.

Sweden and the United States flight-tested early warning from a drone: Saab's LoyalEye radar, integrated on a General Atomics MQ-9B, detected, tracked and classified air targets in a flight over southern California, announced 28 October.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a European country had funded 2,000 Bars interceptor drones and that one destroyed a Shahed in testing before a Starshield restriction halted operations.

Brazil's army tested a domestically developed kamikaze drone, reported 27 October: the army technology center and two national companies validated the safety mechanisms and the explosive payload's controlled function in flight tests.

The United States Air Force flew its XQ-67A uncrewed combat aircraft with integrated mission systems and beyond-line-of-sight data links in a single flight at the Nevada test range, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on 27 October.

German company ARX Robotics and Ukrainian company ROBONEERS have completed the first major system tests of an armed unmanned ground vehicle intended for Ukrainian forces, Euronews reported on 29 October.

Shipbuilder HII is building 10 Romulus unmanned surface vessels for the US Navy in Louisiana, marking construction of the first vessel on 28 October, Defence Industry Europe reported on 29 October.

Australia is gifting an unspecified number of Australian-made Bluebottle unmanned surface vessels to Fiji to patrol its vast waters against drug trafficking, ABC and Australian Defence Magazine reported on 30 October.

INLEAP Photonics opened a new production hall in Hannover on 29 October and is moving its laser-based counter-drone system from prototypes to industrial series production, soldat-und-technik reported on 30 October.

The European Union announced the establishment of two drone technology centres on 30 October, Latvia's defence ministry reported.

The French Army has converted a light cavalry squadron of the 1st Marine Infantry Regiment into its first all-drone combat unit and is now scaling up: around 15 drone-combat units are planned by summer 2027, Defense News reported on 30…

China's GJ-21, a shipborne stealth reconnaissance-and-strike drone, has completed its first takeoff and landing aboard the Sichuan, China's first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, state broadcaster CGTN reported on 31 October, citing a…

Airbus has shown that operators more than 20 kilometers away can take control of an unmanned UH-72 helicopter and hand it back, Defence Industry Europe reported on 31 October.

At the Army's Marambaia proving ground on 28-29 October, the APOLLO unmanned ground vehicle fired a 7.62mm machine gun through a remotely operated REMAX 4 weapon station, with a .50 caliber gun evaluated the next day, Tecnodefesa…

Investment approvals cover five Chinese companies, according to Thai Times.

A company executive describes roughly $100 million in planned investment over three to five years.

A $20 million round backs tiles intended to assemble and reconfigure in orbit.

DHL reports an operating storage system with about 10,800 bins at the Japanese apparel company.

Gideon says its autonomous forklifts are commercially available and working at manufacturing and distribution sites.

FloBot, R2-DU and WALL-D are doing routine deliveries in a Durham hospital pilot.

Eligible DoorDash orders can travel by robot around Griffith University and the surrounding precinct.

Just Eat has added a fourth Morrisons store to its Starship delivery trial.

HKUST demonstrates a robotic arm that uses tactile feedback to adjust its posture and respond to contact.

Carnegie Mellon uses a brief motion to estimate how a flexible object will behave.

ETH researchers report three autonomous hardware solves, each taking eight to nine minutes.

A physical prototype uses snapping elastic rods to turn small motor movements into jumps.

Columbia researchers demonstrate hardware budding with magnetic modules under human control.

PCWorld's hands-on test finds useful edge mopping and a need to clear cables first.

The Ambient's hands-on trial shows strong mopping, with dried ketchup still needing help.

Trusted Reviews puts Dreame's vacuum and mop through carpet, hard-floor and edge-cleaning tasks.

KNAPP reports two robotic picking stations operating inside a distribution centre kept at 2°C.

Agri-OpenCore ended with a physical harvesting demonstration at APS Produce's Europa Nurseries.

Vermeer's autonomous concept carries three round bales at a time to a designated unloading point.

A witnessed Fendt demonstration pairs an autonomous tractor with a combine operator who controls the task.

Xinhua photographed a live field demonstration by South China Agricultural University researchers.

A soft robot combines artificial muscles, an onboard camera and contact sensing in a physical demonstration.

ROBYN'S uses goodBytz cooking equipment and a separate automated drinks system in an operating restaurant.

A kiosk at Terminal 3's Gate 42 moves cups between a drinks machine and a customer window.

The Romain project tested robotic inspection and repair at two EDP Renewables wind farms in October 2025.