Humanoid Deployment Tracker: Q2 2026
Quarterly census of commercial humanoid deployments: 11 paid pilot programmes analysed, uptime and integration-cost benchmarks, and vendor comparison across six platforms.
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Research & Reports
Proprietary data and analysis from Autonomous Systems Research — deployment trackers, procurement databases and market outlooks.
European BVLOS Services: Market Outlook to 2030
How EASA's harmonised framework reshapes the €2.4bn inspection services market — consolidation scenarios, utility procurement patterns and operator economics.
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Counter-UAS Procurement Database: 2024–2026
Every disclosed European counter-drone contract since 2024, categorised by layer, value, and prime — with analysis of the doctrine gap.
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Intelligence briefings
Intelligence / AI
Sector briefing: how a five-year-old British boatmaker ended up arming three navies
Kraken Technology's uncrewed surface vessels are heading to the Royal Marines, US Special Operations and — via a Rheinmetall joint venture — the German line. The company's rise is a case study in how maritime autonomy became NATO's fastest-moving procurement story.
Intelligence / Robotics
Sector briefing: the warehouse is where autonomy already won
While robotaxis fight regulators and humanoids ship in dozens, the least glamorous corner of the sector quietly crossed the line that matters — a million Amazon robots, a billion DHL picks, and a fleet-management layer that has become the real battleground.
Intelligence / Drones
Sector briefing: drone delivery just had its most consequential week
Three announcements in roughly 24 hours — DoorDash's Part 135 certificate, Walmart's Florida return and Flytrex's multi-modal play — mark the moment US drone delivery stopped being a pilot programme and started being logistics.
Intelligence / Machine Vision
Sector briefing: machine vision stops inspecting and starts understanding
The least glamorous autonomy — the camera watching a production line — is having its AI moment. Edge processors, example-trained models and a shift from "detect the defect" to "judge the part" are quietly rewriting factory economics.
Intelligence / Drones
Sector briefing: energy is autonomy's proving ground for the jobs nobody should do
A robot dog running 70% of the rounds at an oil-sands site. An ROV that stays down for a month. Autonomy in energy isn't chasing headlines — it's removing humans from height, depth and hazardous atmospheres, and the economics are unusually honest.
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