FleetLab 1.0 is LIVE. Join us for the first-ever... Saronic hackathon — where your code will run real autonomous boats. We are building autonomous surface vessels from the ground up — designing hardware, software, and autonomy systems in-house and deploying them at scale. FleetLab 1.0 puts you in the middle of our work, challenging you to solve the same autonomy problems our team faces in the real world. Winning teams will watch their code deploy live on Saronic’s autonomous test vessels. Participants will choose one of three tracks: 📍 Track 1: UI: Visualizing Autonomous Decisions How should operators understand what an autonomous system is thinking? Design interfaces and apps that make autonomy transparent, intuitive, and mission-ready. 📍 Track 2: Autonomy + Navigation Develop logic, modeling, or machine learning approaches that improve decision-making in dynamic maritime environments. 📍 Track 3: Machine Learning Track Apply machine learning techniques to real autonomy-focused datasets and deployment scenarios. Are you a Texas-based student and ready to take on the challenge? Application link in the first comment!show more

Saronic has been awarded a production OT under the... U.S. Navy's MUSV Marketplace for Marauder, our 180-foot dual-use autonomous ship — following a rigorous at-sea evaluation that tested the vessel’s capabilities. The trials included autonomously tracking and maneuvering around a variety of vessels, plus a battery of passive-perception tests — requiring Marauder to detect, track, and follow other vessels using only its passive onboard sensors, with no active radar. It's one of the hardest problems in autonomous maritime systems, and Marauder ran every scenario back-to-back on the same platform now under contract with the Navy. "Marauder went from initial design to on-the-water in under a year, and this evaluation demonstrated that the platform holds up under the Navy's own toughest testing," said Dino Mavrookas, CEO and Co-Founder. "We've now flipped our third Marauder hull, with several more moving through the production line behind it. We can build at that pace because we designed the autonomy, software, hardware, and the production process side-by-side, as one system, rather than bolting them together after the fact. That's what it means to be a vertically integrated shipbuilder, and it's why we've been able to build and deliver at speed and scale."show more

Hivemind's first flight in orbit. Onboard a NOVI Space... satellite in low Earth orbit, Hivemind integrated with Sedaro’s Autonomy Framework for the Edge (SAFE), demonstrating trusted satellite autonomy capabilities. Hivemind made autonomous mission decisions while SAFE provided mission assurance, showing how autonomy can help operators move from managing a single satellite to coordinating fleets at scale. The demonstration also proved that Hivemind can operate on existing satellites not originally designed for autonomy. Full release: Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.show more

This is Rivian's next-generation Autonomy hardware and software platform,... which the company says is a "self-improving, end-to-end AI system for our autonomy platform that scales." • 11 cameras (65 total megapixels) • 5 radars • New front-facing LiDAR • Powered by a new in-house designed chip called RAP1 (5nm TSMC) Rivian also detailed its software-first approach to autonomy, powered by the new Rivian Autonomy Platform and an end-to-end data loop used for training. The company introduced its Large Driving Model, a foundational autonomous model trained like a Large Language Model: "Utilizing Group-Relative Policy Optimization, the LDM will distill superior driving strategies from massive datasets into the vehicle."show more

The future won't wait, and neither will we. The... Navy is moving at the speed of the fight, putting autonomous systems in Sailors' hands to test, adapt and scale what works.show more

The Jetsons was the preview… the Sovereign Stack is... the deployment... Flying cars… robot assistants… automated homes… intelligent transportation moving through the air, across the land and over the water… The technology looked like fantasy because the supporting architecture had not been revealed yet... AI, sensors, robotics, satellite communications, autonomous navigation, distributed energy and advanced manufacturing are now converging at once... Saronic’s $3.2 billion Port Alpha shipyard in South Texas brings the maritime layer into full view… large autonomous warships built from the keel up as intelligent, software defined platforms, coordinated through one command layer and produced at industrial scale... This connects everything I have been mapping… Palantir and xAI provide the intelligence… Starlink and the orbital layer provide the nervous system… Anduril controls the autonomous edge… Saronic extends that edge across the oceans… Golden Dome watches from above… autonomous factories, energy systems and logistics keep the entire network moving... One expensive ship becomes a distributed fleet of intelligent vessels capable of sensing, surveillance, defense, resupply and coordinated action across thousands of miles… fewer lives placed in danger, faster production, lower cost and overwhelming scale... Autonomy is becoming the operating system of transportation, defense and civilization itself… The Jetsons seeded the imagination… Port Alpha is pouring the concrete... the future is now... BQQM...show more

❗️“We are the first in the world to create... drone-assault regiments, one of which served as the strike force in the recent de-occupation of Kupiansk,” — Ukraine’s new Minister of Defense Fedorov “We are moving toward full autonomy on the battlefield — from machine vision and data analytics to drone swarms. Our ambitious goal is to make Ukraine the first country in the world capable of predicting and neutralizing enemy attacks using AI.”show more

This is a Waymo outside our office at night.... Doesn't take an expert to see the challenges of using costly, emitting LiDAR sensors for off-road military autonomy. Humans don’t need lasers coming out of our eyes to navigate the world. Neither should autonomous systemsshow more

TRUMP: PRICES WILL DROP LIKE STONE, JUST WATCH! ◾... Because we won't need oil or gas. Tesla free energy is the direction we are heading. NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME. ARE YOU READY FOR THE FUTURE? 📍 Ultrasonic electric jets 📍 Autonomous cars 📍 Flying cars. 📍 JOB LOSS = #GESARA ◾ NO FEAR, BEAUTIFUL NEW WORLD!!! PRICES WILL GO BACK IN THE 1950S AND REAL ESTATE PRICES I Love the Green Tie... Its Go Time!!!!show more

Building the foundation for autonomous warfare. During an operational... visit to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan observed unmanned systems deployed in support of Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere missions. Their deployment also marks the first step toward developing a SOUTHCOM Autonomous Warfare Command (SAWC) training and mission-support site at NSGB, where teams can train and integrate autonomous capabilities, support operational requirements, and apply operational lessons to training and capability development. The SAWC integrates people, autonomous and unmanned systems, data, communications, and other capabilities around supported-command requirements to create decision and operational advantage. #JTFWHEM #UnmannedSystems #DroneWarfare #DroneDominance #AutonomousSystems Department of War 🇺🇸 Secretary of War Pete Hegsethshow more

Industrial digital twins are helping shape the future of... physical AI in manufacturing.🏭 At #NVIDIAGTC Berlin, hear from the leaders bringing simulation, agentic AI, robotics, and autonomous systems from concept to the factory floor. Don't miss: 👉 Building Europe’s Industrial Future with NVIDIA’s Open Physical AI Platform 👉 Automation Meets Autonomy: Europe’s Next Era of Robotics - Agile Robots, Dexory, Wandelbots 👉 Building the Automotive Physical AI Playbook: Factory Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles - Mercedes-Benz 🔗show more

WOW! “We were the first nation in the world... to establish drone assault regiments, one of which served as the primary strike force in the recent de-occupation of Kupiansk. We are moving toward full battlefield autonomy, integrating machine vision, data analytics, and coordinated drone swarms.” “Our goal is to make Ukraine the first country in the world capable of predicting and neutralizing enemy attacks using purely Artificial Intelligence, safeguarding the lives of our infantrymen.” Victory is Ukraine! 🇺🇦show more

We hit $10M ARR in 2 months making us... one of the fastest growing AI startups in the world 🚀 And today, we are putting more power into the hands of people while changing the world of vibecoding 🙌 Introducing: 1. Emergent Pro Mode- Build real autonomous agents 2. Mobile Apps- Build apps for android and iOS 3. At the end, a surprise announcementshow more

1,000+ U.S. launches and reentries a year by 2030... is just the foundation. Under President Trump's space guidance, DIU is scaling space architecture for domain overmatch through launch, re-entry, in-space logistics, and autonomy to secure space superiority. We are scaling reusable tech, mobile infrastructure, control, advanced propulsion, and autonomous control to ensure U.S. constellations out-maneuver and out-last peer threats at machine speed. (Video courtesy of SpaceX)show more

We’re partnering with Paul Jankura to launch the biggest... Protein Design Competition in the world, challenging people around the world to use AI to design new potential drug candidates for diseases that affect millions of lives. The competition will feature five challenges, each focused on a specific disease or biological mechanism. Compared to previous competitions, it will be a big step-up in complexity and scale to push the boundaries of AI-driven protein design. Together with Anthropic, we’re sponsoring over $1 million in experimental validation, making it possible to test more than 5,000 protein designs in our automated lab at no cost to participants. Anthropic is providing an additional $1 million in Claude credits. All experimental results will be published openly on Proteinbase, including designs that didn’t work, so anyone can access the data and build on what we learn. The competition is open to everyone and free to enter. It will feature 3 tracks: - Track 1 is aimed at expert protein designers, with up to 20 teams to be selected. - Track 2 is targeting life science academics and industry researchers. - Track 3 is open to everyone from tech enthusiasts to high-school students. By combining Anthropic’s models with access to our automated lab, we want to make it possible for anyone with a laptop and an internet connection to join the global effort to advance human health with AI. A big thanks to Modal for contributing compute for protein design and to Twist Bioscience for contributing the DNA for the experimental validation! Sign up link below -show more

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) paradigms in autonomous driving primarily rely... on Imitation Learning (IL), which introduces inherent challenges such as distribution shift and causal confusion. Online Reinforcement Learning offers a promising pathway to address these issues through trial-and-error learning. However, applying online reinforcement learning to VLA models in autonomous driving is hindered by inefficient exploration in continuous action spaces. MindDrive, a VLA framework comprising a large language model (LLM) with two distinct sets of LoRA parameters. The one LLM serves as a Decision Expert for scenario reasoning and driving decision-making, while the other acts as an Action Expert that dynamically maps linguistic decisions into feasible trajectories. Paper Title: MindDrive: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Driving via Project: Link:show more

Robora Sim: A PyBullet-Powered Environment for Learning Robotic Physical... Intelligence We are currently building our Robora simulation environment setup for our sim based learning, leveraging PyBullet, an industry-standard physics engine widely used in AI-driven robotics research and development. The environment is optimized with GPU-accelerated learning algorithms, enabling high-speed imitation learning and reinforcement learning within a safe and controlled virtual setup before shipping out to real world. This simulation platform allows our models to learn, adapt, and generalize across different robot morphologies, terrain types and task objectives - all before deployment to the real world. At it's core, the system combines a VLA-powered high-level planner with low-level motion control algorithms, working cohesively to produce emergent, physically intelligent behaviors. This synergy between simulation, learning, and real-world transfer marks a major step forward in our pursuit of adaptive and intelligent robotic systems. Through advanced domain randomization and synthetic data generation, the Robora Simulation Environment ensures that policies trained in simulation transfer effectively to real-world robots, minimizing the sim-to-real gap. Moreover, users will be able to test and integrate their own hardware kits within selected simulation environments in the Robora Dapp, ensuring seamless compatibility and safer real-world implementation.show more

Every year, the best young engineers in the world... compete at the FIRST Robotics Competition. This year, a team coached by one of our own came out on top. Jonathan Mi, an electrical design engineer at Shield AI, mentored Team 4414, HighTide, who took first place across 93,000 students, 3,700 teams, and 35 countries. They designed, programmed, and built their robot from scratch. Watch what it does. The strongest engineers build up everyone around them. That's who we hire. Congrats to HighTide, and when graduation comes, you know where to find us! Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.show more

We're building the next phase of our long-horizon autonomy... study and we want your input to help shape it. What questions should we be asking? What behaviours would you want tested? Share your thoughts in the comments, or head to the link below to submit your input and stay notified when it goes live:show more

Netanyahu: The opposition will establish Arab autonomy in the... Galilee and the Negev.show more

Dubai basically just built a driving school for autonomous... cars. The new Mobility Labs lets vehicles go from closed testing zones to city-style roads and then onto real public roads, all in one place. Tesla has already tested there. Dubai is aiming for 25% of all journeys to be autonomous by 2030. It’s where autonomous driving gets ready for the real world. Tesla / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more