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AeroVironment, Inc has introduced plans to accumulate Tomahawk Robotics, a developer of AI-enabled robotic management programs for the army, 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’ know-how, resulting in higher interoperability and interconnectivity of unmanned programs via a singular platform with comparable management options. Finally, the acquisition will permit troopers to function numerous related robotic programs on the battlefield and share info between a number of domains with one widespread controller. 

“The acquisition of Tomahawk Robotics is not going to solely present AeroVironment with robust new members of our group, however a top quality model and merchandise which are broadly revered within the business. Tomahawk Robotics will turn out to be a part of the small UAS (SUAS) enterprise unit inside AeroVironment’s Unmanned Methods phase. 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 business. 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 greatest recognized for its Kinesis Ecosystem, a tactical functionality designed for troopers. Kinesis is the corporate’s AI-enhanced and open structure widespread 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.’ The whole lot 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 may have a broader attain and the chance to be optimized by not solely AeroVironment’s household of programs, however the broader robotics group, higher enabling warfighters throughout the globe.”