Category: Space and Robotics
Surgical and Medical Robotics: How Precision Machines Are Transforming Healthcare
Robotics has quietly become one of the most consequential technologies in modern medicine. From robotic-assisted surgical systems that extend a surgeon’s precision beyond human physical limits to autonomous mobile robots handling hospital logistics, medical robotics is expanding well beyond the operating room. The sector combines the technical demands of precision robotics with the regulatory rigor…
Can AI Optimize Underwater Sensing? Nauticus and Strangeworks Explore
Nauticus Robotics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KITT) announced in a press release on August 4 that it has entered a collaboration with Strangeworks, a privately held compute optimization company, to explore how artificial intelligence and quantum-inspired computing could improve the way underwater fiber-optic sensing networks are planned and deployed. The announcement is explicitly exploratory: there is no…
MDA Space Adds Military Comms to Telesat’s LEO Expansion
MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA) (NYSE: MDA) announced in a press release on August 4 that the value of its satellite manufacturing contract with Telesat Corporation (Nasdaq: TSAT) (TSX: TSAT) has increased by $474 million, following Telesat’s decision to expand its Lightspeed low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellation. The increase matters beyond its dollar figure:…
Lunar Infrastructure: The Business Case for Returning to the Moon
Fifty years after the last crewed lunar landing, a new generation of missions is returning to the Moon with a fundamentally different purpose. Where the original space race was driven by geopolitical prestige, the current wave of lunar activity is oriented toward building durable infrastructure — landing systems, resource extraction technology, and communication networks —…
ZenaTech Files Five Patent Applications for Acoustic Wildfire Drones
ZenaTech Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) is a Vancouver-based technology company developing AI-enabled drones while operating Drone as a Service (DaaS) and enterprise software businesses. In the first quarter of 2026, the company reported revenue of CAD $8.4 million, with approximately 93% coming from its acquisition-driven DaaS segment. ZenaTech’s unaudited quarterly results also showed a net loss…
In-Space Manufacturing: Why Some Products May Only Be Made in Orbit
Manufacturing has always been constrained by the physical conditions of Earth: gravity, atmosphere, and the presence of contaminants that limit the purity and structure achievable in materials production. Microgravity and vacuum, freely available in low Earth orbit, remove those constraints entirely. A small but growing group of companies is betting that certain high-value products —…
Autonomous Vehicles: The Long Road to a Self-Driving Future
The autonomous vehicle story is the technology sector’s most instructive lesson in the gap between capability demonstration and reliable commercial deployment. Early projections of fully autonomous consumer vehicles by the early 2020s have been revised substantially as the difficulty of engineering systems that handle the full complexity of real-world driving has become clear. The sector…
The Rise of Industrial Robotics: How Automation Is Transforming Global Manufacturing
The industrial robot has been a fixture of automotive manufacturing for decades, performing welding, painting, and assembly tasks with a precision and repeatability that human operators cannot match. What is new is the speed at which robotics is expanding beyond the automotive factory and into industries that previously considered automation impractical: electronics assembly, food processing,…
The New Space Race: How Private Aerospace Is Redefining the Final Frontier
For most of the twentieth century, space was a domain of governments. The economics were simple: only nation-states could afford the infrastructure, and only national security and scientific prestige justified the expense. That calculus has changed fundamentally. The cost of reaching orbit has fallen by more than ninety percent over the past two decades, and…