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AeroVironment, Inc has introduced plans to amass Tomahawk Robotics, a developer of AI-enabled robotic management techniques for the navy, for $120 million. AeroVironment will purchase 100% of the corporate’s fairness, and the acquisition worth will likely be paid in a mixture of money and inventory.
This acquisition will allow deeper integration of each corporations’ expertise, resulting in higher interoperability and interconnectivity of unmanned techniques via a singular platform with related management options. Finally, the acquisition will permit troopers to function varied related robotic techniques on the battlefield and share info between a number of domains with one frequent controller.
“The acquisition of Tomahawk Robotics won’t solely present AeroVironment with sturdy new members of our crew, however a top quality model and merchandise which might be extensively 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 amenities in Florida,” AeroVironment’s CEO and Chairman Wahid Nawabi stated. “We are going to assist all present Tomahawk Robotics prospects 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 season, 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.’ All the things we’ve designed or made has been optimized to higher equip and put together troopers on the battlefield,” Tomahawk Robotics CEO Brad Truesdell stated. “Becoming a member of AeroVironment means our options can have a broader attain and the chance to be optimized by not solely AeroVironment’s household of techniques, however the broader robotics group, higher enabling warfighters throughout the globe.”