2025-02-28
German defence ministry asks startup to build hypersonic spaceplane
Germany’s armed forces have commissioned Bremen-based startup Polaris to develop a two-stage, fully reusable hypersonic space plane — and given the team just three years to build it. Dubbed Aurora, the 28-metre-long aircraft will be part rocket, part plane — designed to take off and land on a runway but also blast through the atmosphere and place payloads up to 1-ton in low-Earth orbit. Under the contract, the startup will design, build, and flight test the spaceplane. The aircraft will serve as a testbed for hypersonic flight and defence resea [...]
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2025-02-20
Surging European defence stocks signal ‘huge potential’ for military tech startups
Shares in European aerospace and defence companies soared to record highs this week, elevating expectations for the continent’s military tech startups. Britain’s BAE Systems leapt by 9% on Monday, [...]
2025-01-07
German Bionic’s new Apogee Ultra exoskeleton can lift up to 80 pounds and help with walking
German Bionic, the robot exoskeleton startup behind the lightweight Apogee exosuit, just revealed the Apogee Ultra at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. This powered exoskeleton is intended to help people complet [...]
2025-04-09
Defence tech startup ARX Robotics targets 1,800 autonomous land drones a year at new UK plant
German startup ARX Robotics has announced plans to invest £45mn into a new UK facility, where it will build autonomous battlefield robots for deployment in war zones around the world. Located at an [...]
2025-02-10
Europe boosts military AI as Mistral and Helsing form defence tech alliance
European tech leaders Helsing and Mistral have formed a pact to build new military AI systems. The partnership brings together two of Europe’s top startups. Helsing, a defence tech firm based in Ger [...]
2025-03-21
Opinion: To close Europe’s defence tech gap, governments must support startups
The United States has long understood a simple truth: war is won not by size alone, but by speed and creativity. Indeed, innovation has always been crucial in conflict. Armour made knights safe until [...]
2025-01-10
Citizen Sleeper 2 asks how we stay human in a hopeless future
Life for Sleepers is fraught. They gain consciousness in a state of indentured servitude, an emulated human mind inside an android body, forced to work until they’re discarded. Those who escape don [...]
2024-12-19
German startup behind electric ‘microliner’ lands €14M runway
Munich-based startup Vaeridion has secured €14mn to develop an electric aircraft that it hopes will whisk passengers on short-haul routes around Europe by 2030. “The microliner looks like a regu [...]
2025-04-08
UK is going full minority report with ‘murder prediction’ research
The Guardian reported that the UK's Ministry of Justice has been developing an algorithm designed to identify people who could become killers. Initially dubbed the "homicide prediction proje [...]