North America
OpEd – Drone Delivery’s Blind Spot: Why FAA’s Drone Package PEA Potentially Puts Heliports, Hospitals and Safety at Risk
By: Dawn Zoldi* By midnight January 8th, the FAA’s official public comment period on its Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Drone Package Delivery Operations quietly closed with only a...Read More
When the Network Is the Lifeline: How Verizon’s Robotic Dog and 5G Partners Are Rewiring Public Safety
By: Dawn Zoldi At GBEF EDGE 2026 in Las Vegas, Verizon Frontline turned a tech demo into a live proof of concept for what mission success looks like when autonomy,...Read More
Aerospacelab to Supply Eight Additional Satellites for Xona building on success of Pulsar-0
New order bridges Xona’s path to meet early demand with launches beginning in late 2026. Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium – January 13, 2025, 07:00 CET – Aerospacelab, a leader in satellite manufacturing and...Read More
Hirth Engines and ePropelled Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance High‑Efficiency Propulsion Systems
Coventry, UK 13 January 2026 – Hirth Engines, a globally recognised leader in two‑stroke engine technology, and ePropelled, an innovator in high‑efficiency intelligent electric propulsion and power‑generation systems, today announced a...Read More
From Vineyard Rows to Robot Rows: Inside Kubota and Agtonomy’s Autonomous Ag at CES 2026
By: Dawn Zoldi Unlike many other companies on the CES 2026 show floor in Las Vegas, Kubota and Agtonomy were not talking about hypothetical robots or distant roadmaps. They were...Read More
Public Safety UAS in 2026: A Year of Transition, Security and Innovation
By: Jason Day, AG Ambassador – Public Safety As we now venture into 2026, public safety unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have already made significant headway at the intersection of policy,...Read More
Giving Robots a Human Touch: Inside XELA Robotics’ CES 2026 Tech Preview
By: Dawn Zoldi In a CES packed with humanoids, AI assistants and next-gen mobility concepts, one Tokyo startup quietly showed off something far more fundamental: a way to give robots...Read More
Cross-Platform Drone Training: Prepare Now for Multi-Domain Operations
By Bronwyn Morgan, AG Ambassador, Training and Education In both the combat and commercial operational environments, air, sea, land and increasingly cyber and space, must operate seamlessly. For this reason,...Read More
Ukraine War Becomes Live Test Bed for AI-Enabled Autonomous Weapons
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel In 2026, Ukraine is set to remain a frontline proving ground for Western defense technologies, with AI-enabled and autonomous systems at...Read More
Kubota Brings Smarter Solutions to CES® 2026, Redefining How Work Gets Done
CES® 2026 Exhibit Unveils a Smart, Integrated, Autonomous Solution in Kubota’s M5 Narrow Diesel Specialty Tractor, and a New Concept Versatile Platform ‘Transformer’ Robot (KVPR) LAS VEGAS (January 6, 2026) – During a...Read More
