Daily Hard Tech Headlines:
- @Hyliion secured a $41.7 million U.S. Navy contract to develop and deliver modular power plants capable of running on more than 20 fuel types or external heat sources.
- @Outlier Space secured US$7.35 million in pre-seed funding. The New Zealand startup is developing an autonomous satellite capsule for microgravity research and manufacturing.
- UNIT has secured $12 million in new funding. The startup deploys a compact, modular robotics platform that automates fulfillment and returns for retailers and logistics providers inside existing warehouses.
- Brookfield partnered with NextEra Energy, Inc. to develop a $100 billion data center and energy campus on Department of Energy land in Kentucky.
- Ukrainian drone maker Skyeton is investing more than $3 million to establish a production facility in North Carolina.
- The Department of Commerce plans to deploy nearly $900 million across AI memory, photonics, advanced packaging, materials, and hardware security to advance the U.S. semiconductor industry. Selected companies include GlobalFoundries, Kepler, Multibeam Corporation, @extropic, Thintronics, OBSIDIA Semiconductors, and Aeluma.
- NewRange Copper Nickel is moving forward with key environmental permits. The mining firm is seeking to develop one of the largest undeveloped copper and nickel resources in the U.S., located in northern Minnesota.
- @procoretech has agreed to acquire DroneDeploy for $845 million in one of the largest robotics acquisitions to date. DroneDeploy uses drones, ground robots, and cameras to inspect and capture data from more than 3 million construction sites.
- @shieldaitech integrated Hivemind into Thunder Tiger’s SeaShark unmanned vessels, completing the system’s first coordinated multi-vessel mission on water in Taiwan.
- @DoorDash has launched drone delivery in parts of Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas and Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Actor completed 27 robotic deployments for construction companies in seven hours.
- Leidos Gibbs & Cox Australia has been tapped to help design a new floating dry dock for Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarine fleet.
- @Fortastra_Corp signed an MOU with @HadrianInc on spacecraft manufacturing for national security missions.
- @ICON3DTech has completed the largest robotic construction deployment in U.S. military history, using robotic 3D printing to build the first of ten Army barracks at Fort Bliss, 4x faster and $5.2M cheaper than conventional construction.
- @SpaceX secured $1.6 billion to provide 18 launches for the U.S. Space Force.
