Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN) generates news at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, defense technology and industrial automation. As a U.S.-based technology company, it reports on developments in embodied AI, collaborative autonomy, advanced avionics, UAV systems, precision manufacturing and aerospace engineering services for defense and industrial markets.
News about Palladyne AI often highlights progress across its software platforms and divisions. The company issues updates on its Palladyne IQ and Palladyne IQ 2.0 industrial autonomy products, which are designed to bring low-code / no-code, edge-based intelligence to industrial robots and cobots in factories, depots and logistics environments. It also reports on the evolution of Palladyne Pilot, its autonomy platform for unmanned and defense applications, including integrations with UAV platforms and demonstrations of autonomous swarming and multi-drone coordination.
Investors and followers can expect coverage of defense-focused initiatives through the Palladyne Defense division, which combines embodied AI, loitering munitions components and systems, advanced avionics and U.S.-based manufacturing. Company announcements describe how acquisitions such as GuideTech and the Crucis companies contribute avionics, flight systems and precision machining capabilities, as well as revenue-generating defense programs.
Palladyne AI also issues news on financial and strategic milestones, including revenue guidance, backlog levels, balance sheet updates, equity awards and acquisition-related transactions. Additional releases cover patent issuances, conference presentations, collaborations with partners in robotics and UAVs, and board-level appointments that reflect its focus on defense and industrial markets.
This PDYN news page aggregates these press releases and related coverage so readers can follow how Palladyne AI’s AI software platforms, defense division and industrial autonomy products are progressing over time. For investors, analysts and industry observers, the news flow provides insight into the company’s technology roadmap, contract activity and strategic positioning in AI-enabled defense and industrial automation.
AIRO Group Holdings (AIRO) announced that Jaunt Air Mobility selected Calogy Solutions to design batteries for its hybrid-electric VTOL drone variants. The battery work covers the JC-250 and JX-250, with Jaunt moving the program toward flight testing and commercialization.
Other developments include BigBear.ai (BBAI) securing more than $225 million in contract awards since July, including more than 25 new generative AI awards. VisionWave (VWAV) is developing Stratum AI and STRATUM Command; neither is commercially available, has generated revenue or has completed independent third-party testing or validation. Palladyne AI (PDYN), Federal Ammunition and Mossberg are jointly developing SwarmShot, initially for Gremlin-X, with broader integration planned following qualification. MicroVision (MVIS) and Robinson Unmanned entered a joint marketing and demonstration agreement for airborne lidar integration.
Palladyne AI (PDYN) launched joint development of SwarmShot with Federal Ammunition and Mossberg, a planned autonomous airborne system for intercepting hostile drones. The system will combine Federal ammunition, a Mossberg airborne weapon module and Palladyne AI’s IntelliSwarm aircraft-control technology.
Development will begin with a mission add-on for Palladyne AI’s Gremlin-X quadcopter. After qualification on that aircraft, the partners plan an integration kit for compatible third-party drones. Palladyne AI will lead aircraft integration, fire control and coordination among interceptors. Its SwarmOS software previously enabled aircraft from multiple manufacturers to collaborate during U.S. Army exercises, with soldiers retaining weapons authority. The development program is expected to include ammunition testing, aircraft-stability testing and live-fire flight testing. Development schedules and financial terms were not disclosed.
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) announced that its BRAIN flight computer was selected as a finalist in the U.S. Army FUZE xTech|Apex Intercept competition. The selection provides an opportunity to demonstrate its onboard AI flight-control and autonomy capabilities to Army and Department of War end-users. The finals demonstration event is expected in October/November 2026.
The competition, delivered with Capability Program Executive Defensive Fires, evaluates commercial technologies for potential defense applications, including interceptor and fire-control modernization. Palladyne AI previously announced $2.6 million in BRAIN flight computer orders from a defense prime, including $2.3 million supporting a low-cost kinetic system to intercept unmanned aircraft. The company views the selection and orders as reinforcing BRAIN’s role in autonomous defense systems.
Palladyne AI (PDYN) and FANUC America announced a strategic collaboration to combine FANUC’s industrial robot portfolio with Palladyne AI’s Palladyne™ IQ physical AI software platform to advance intelligent robotic automation.
The companies plan to simplify deployment, increase adaptability, and expand automation across manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics, addressing labor shortages, product variability, and productivity pressures. The collaboration centers on enabling robots to be deployed faster, operate more intelligently, and provide improved return on investment for customers.
Planned initiatives include:
- Optimization of Palladyne™ IQ on FANUC robotic platforms
- AI-driven motion planning and adaptive robot behavior
- Teleoperation and human-assisted learning capabilities
- Simulation and AI model training to accelerate deployment
- Joint validation of customer use cases
- Standardized deployment workflows for system integrators and end users
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) announced that CEO Ben Wolff and CFO Trevor Thatcher will participate in two investor events in September 2026. At the Jefferies Global Industrials Conference on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Wolff will join a fireside chat from 8:10–8:45 AM ET, with a webcast available via Jefferies. On Thursday, September 10, 2026, both executives will attend the Lake Street Capital Markets 10th Annual Best Ideas Growth Conference (BIG10) for 1:1 investor meetings. Qualified investors are invited to arrange meetings through their Jefferies or Lake Street representatives.
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) and NORDA Dynamics announced a collaboration to integrate Palladyne AI’s SwarmOS™ collaborative autonomy software with NORDA’s Underdog Autonomy Module, a combat-proven terminal guidance system used across Ukraine. The combined architecture is designed to let unmanned aerial platforms autonomously detect, classify, track, assign and engage multiple terrestrial, maritime and unmanned aerial targets, including in GNSS-denied and heavily jammed environments, while keeping humans on-the-loop for engagement decisions.
According to the companies, SwarmOS provides distributed, edge-based perception and multi-target coordination, while Underdog handles short‑range precision pursuit and terminal guidance based on real‑time target data. Subject to any required governmental approvals, both parties plan to integrate the technologies on one or more unmanned platforms and jointly demonstrate the system. The collaboration is positioned as supporting Department of War modernization priorities around low-cost, distributed, attritable and counter‑UAS capabilities.
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) and Orkid Tech announced a collaboration to integrate Palladyne AI’s Palladyne Pilot and SwarmOS autonomy software with Orkid’s long-range, NDAA-compliant fixed-wing VTOL UAV platform. This represents Palladyne AI’s first fixed-wing UAV partnership and is intended to extend its hardware-agnostic autonomy stack into a new aircraft class.
According to Palladyne AI, the companies intend to develop integrated drone systems for the U.S. Department of War and industrial markets such as oil and gas, power, wildfire management, and public safety. Orkid’s runway-independent UAVs feature modular payloads, while SwarmOS is designed to enable multi-aircraft collaborative autonomy, allowing a single pilot to manage swarms that can respond in real time to evolving conditions.
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) appointed retired Maj. Gen. Mark A. “Droopy” Clark, former commander of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) and former Director of Operations and Chief of Staff at U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), to its Defense Advisory Board.
According to the company, Clark’s special operations experience will help guide how Palladyne AI positions its low-cost attritable systems, SwarmOS™ collaborative autonomy software, and loitering munitions such as Gremlin-X™, SwarmStrike™, and HARPY-family systems, which it plans to manufacture and integrate for the U.S. Department of War with Israel Aerospace Industries.
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) reported that its SwarmOS™ autonomy platform and Gremlin-X™ reusable mini-bomber successfully performed at the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence Capstone 6 (PC-C6), the Army’s largest division-scale future-warfare experiment. This was SwarmOS’s second successful multi-drone, multi-vendor deployment in under three months, following the Ivy Mass rehearsal.
At both Ivy Mass and PC-C6, SwarmOS integrated with Anduril’s Lattice, enabling heterogeneous Group 1 and Group 2 unmanned aircraft from multiple manufacturers to operate as one coordinated system. At PC-C6, SwarmOS achieved Impact Level 5 (IL5) cloud security certification for higher-sensitivity unclassified mission data and mission-critical C2 workflows. SwarmOS supported end-to-end sensor-to-effects missions, including ISR, target identification, tasking of Gremlin-X under soldier decision authority, and post-strike assessment, demonstrating real-time collaborative autonomy within the Army’s emerging command-and-control architecture and before U.S. Joint and allied forces.
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $5.8 million, up 470% year-over-year and 63% sequentially, driven by acquisitions and organic growth. Backlog rose 43% during the quarter to $24.6 million, including about $13.0 million in new contract awards.
The company posted a Q2 GAAP net loss of ($12.3) million, or ($0.27) per share, versus ($7.5) million or ($0.20) a year earlier. Non-GAAP net loss was ($10.8) million or ($0.23) per share. Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaled $43.7 million at June 30, 2026, roughly flat sequentially.
Strategically, Palladyne AI signed an exclusive U.S. partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries for HARPY, HAROP and Mini HARPY loitering munitions, won multiple U.S. Army and Air Force contracts and options with values up to several million dollars each, and executed its Ivy Mass exercise integrating SwarmOS and Gremlin-X.
The company reiterated full-year 2026 revenue guidance of $24–$27 million (357%–415% growth) and operating cash burn guidance of ($32)–($36) million, expecting sequential revenue growth and lower cash burn in the second half of 2026.