Intelligence on machines that act
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Marcus Macaulay is the publisher of Autonomous Systems Review. He has worked in magazine publishing, design and photography since the late 1980s, and in the early 2000s directed music videos and filmed live bands for some of the UK’s best-known indie acts. Today he runs a publishing and design practice building magazines and websites, Plan. Design. Publish.
When he isn’t writing, he’s usually behind a camera, shooting stills, video and drone footage as a licensed pilot, or out hiking and photographing wildlife. He travels to expos, factories and test sites around the world to see the technology ASR covers up close.
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A Munich-born spin-off from the German Aerospace Center has opened a serial-production humanoid facility in Bavaria and secured a SoftBank-led $500 million funding round — marking a significant moment for European industrial robotics.
Beijing has blocked SoftBank’s $5.4bn purchase of ABB Robotics in China. The reasons say more about where robotics is heading than the price ever did.
Ukraine's UFORCE has closed a $700 million Series A round co-led by Valor Equity Partners and the UK National Wealth Fund, cementing its transition from a wartime startup into a globally positioned defense prime. The funding round and its institutional backers signal a structural shift in how defence capital is being deployed toward battle-tested autonomous systems.
Stretch Gen 2 is faster, but the real story is a trailer-unloading robot rebuilt around one thing: not breaking down on the dock
While Europe debates permits, Dubai and Abu Dhabi have paying passengers in cars with nobody at the wheel. Ahead of GITEX, a look at what’s actually running, and what the region wants next.
The Gray Eagle 25M's arrival in Arizona marks a generational shift in what a state-level force can accomplish over contested terrain — and it raises serious questions about how other border states will respond.
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