Category: Domain

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

Furuno and Tocaro Blue Collaborate to Advance Radar-Based Perception for Autonomous Marine Systems

Camas, WA - Furuno USA has announced a collaborative effort with Tocaro Blue to accelerate the development of next-generation Radar perception technologies for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) and advanced maritime autonomy systems. As the maritime industry moves toward greater automation and AI-driven decision-making, Radar is evolving from a traditional navigation tool into a critical data source... Continue reading

FarSounder and Tocaro Blue Announce an Integration Delivering Enhanced Marine Navigation

FarSounder has expanded the capabilities of its Argos Forward Looking Navigation Sonar (FLS) with an integration with Tocaro Blue’s ProteusCore™ software. This new integration brings AI-powered Radar perception to FarSounder’s SonaSoft™ Lt navigation software, delivering even greater situational awareness for users navigating challenging marine environments. FarSounder’s Argos 3D FLS systems are designed to help mariners... Continue reading

Pierce Aerospace Selected to Build Remote ID Network for NASA, Paving the Way for Drone and Air Taxi Flight in the Bay Area

May 7th, 2026, Fishers, IN — Pierce Aerospace, a pioneer in Remote ID technologies, announced they've been selected by Metis Technology to deploy Remote ID sensors throughout the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. Metis Technology Solutions is the Prime Contractor for NASA’s Aerospace Research Technology and Simulation (ARTS) contract to support safety and... 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.