The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has launched a new competition seeking cutting-edge, early-stage science and technology ideas to advance the UK’s military use of autonomous and robotic systems across land, sea, and air environments. Run through UK Defence Innovation (UKDI), the Novel Autonomy and Robotics competition offers over £1 million in funding across two stages and is open to innovators with genuinely novel, disruptive concepts that could radically reshape how autonomous systems are developed and deployed in defence. What Dstl is Looking For The competition is deliberately focused on the earliest stages of innovation. Dstl is not seeking…
