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AeroVironment, Inc has introduced plans to accumulate Tomahawk Robotics, a developer of AI-enabled robotic management methods for the army, for $120 million. AeroVironment will purchase 100% of the corporate’s fairness, and the acquisition value can be paid in a mixture of money and inventory.
This acquisition will allow deeper integration of each corporations’ expertise, resulting in larger interoperability and interconnectivity of unmanned methods by means of a singular platform with comparable management options. In the end, the acquisition will enable troopers to function varied related robotic methods on the battlefield and share data between a number of domains with one frequent controller.
“The acquisition of Tomahawk Robotics is not going to solely present AeroVironment with robust new members of our crew, however a high quality model and merchandise which might be broadly revered within the trade. Tomahawk Robotics will turn into a part of the small UAS (SUAS) enterprise unit inside AeroVironment’s Unmanned Techniques section. We intend to retain all of their workforce and present services in Florida,” AeroVironment’s CEO and Chairman Wahid Nawabi mentioned. “We’ll assist all present Tomahawk Robotics clients and their merchandise will stay platform agnostic to the market and inside the trade. We additionally plan to introduce Tomahawk Robotics options to AeroVironment’s rising community of greater than 55 allied nations.”
Tomahawk Robotics was based in 2018 by Brad Truesdell, now the CEO, and Matt Summer time, now the CTO. Its finest identified for its Kinesis Ecosystem, a tactical functionality designed for troopers. Kinesis is the corporate’s AI-enhanced and open structure frequent management system.
Kinesis can combine the community of unmanned expeditionary automobiles, sensors, and third-party software program onto a single pane of glass. The Kinesis Ecosystem delivers focused situational consciousness and precision strike capabilities for human-machine groups throughout battlefields.
“Our motto has all the time been ‘warfighter first.’ Every little thing we’ve designed or made has been optimized to raised equip and put together troopers on the battlefield,” Tomahawk Robotics CEO Brad Truesdell mentioned. “Becoming a member of AeroVironment means our options could have a broader attain and the chance to be optimized by not solely AeroVironment’s household of methods, however the broader robotics neighborhood, higher enabling warfighters throughout the globe.”