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    Taiwan, Trusted Supply Chains, and the Future of Autonomy

    By Michael Robbins President & CEO, AUVSI I recently returned from another successful and productive trip to Taiwan, where I joined a delegation convened around the 2026 National Strategic Summit on Supply Chain Resilience, hosted by our friends at DSET, and spent a week in meetings, panels, media interviews, and industry discussions focused on one core question: how democratic... Continue reading

    One Year Later: Unleashing American Drone Dominance

    By Michael Robbins President & CEO, AUVSI Coming up on one year ago, the Administration issued the “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” Executive Order, sending a clear signal that autonomy, uncrewed systems, and robotics are not just emerging technologies, they are critical to America’s economic strength, industrial competitiveness, infrastructure resilience, and national security future.  One year later, the American drone sector... Continue reading

    AUVSI Statement on Introduction of the GUARD Act

    AUVSI commends House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar, Rep. Jennifer McClellan, and Rep. Jay Obernolte for introducing the bipartisan Guarding the U.S. against Adversarial Robotics Dominance Act of 2026 (GUARD Act), which takes an important step toward protecting American infrastructure and the domestic robotics industry from high-risk foreign adversary systems. In May 2025, all 24 members of the... Continue reading

    AUVSI Statement on FAA’s Proposed Section 2209 Rule

    The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) welcomes the Federal Aviation Administration's publication today of a long-awaited proposed rule to implement Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016, establishing a formal federal process to designate airspace restrictions around sensitive facilities including 16 designated critical infrastructure sectors, with heightened protections for federal security and national defense sites. ... Continue reading

    XPONENTIAL 2026 Arrives in Detroit Next Week: 5 Things to Know About the World’s Largest Autonomy Event 

    10,000+ attendees, 550+ exhibitors, and 100+ sessions to explore how robotics, drones and autonomous systems are moving to real-world deployment  DETROIT (May 4, 2026) — The global robotics and autonomous systems industry will convene in Detroit next week as XPONENTIAL 2026 takes over Huntington Place from May 11–14. The event brings together industry, government, defense and end users at a pivotal moment for the sector, as autonomy... Continue reading

    AUVSI Warns Congress Window is Closing for U.S. Robotics Leadership

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) told Congress today that robotics is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern industrial and economic power, with major implications for manufacturing capacity, workforce development, supply chain resilience, and national security. Testifying before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Research and... Continue reading

    Helping States Get Drone and Advanced Air Mobility Policy Right

    As states formulate policies that will shape the future of drones, counter-unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and advanced air mobility (AAM), they face a clear choice: enable innovation and enhance public safety through coordinated, forward-looking frameworks, or risk creating a fragmented landscape that slows progress and conflicts with federal law. The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems... Continue reading

    Detroit Conference Preview: See How Autonomous Technologies are Already Being Deployed and What Michigan Industry Can Learn to Accelerate Adoption

    XPONENTIAL 2026 brings together industry, government and companies deploying these technologies to examine how robotics and autonomous systems are already being used, and what it will take to scale them safely and quickly More than 100 sessions and live demonstrations will spotlight real-world applications, regulatory realities and workforce impact Technologies on display will address disaster... Continue reading

    About AUVSI

    Since 1972, the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) has enabled technical innovation, supportive policy, and inspired academic breakthroughs in the uncrewed industry.

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