Palladyne AI获美国空军追加行使290万美元STRATFI合同期权，总授标达1060万美元

Palladyne AI Announces U.S. Air Force Exercise of Additional $2.9 Million STRATFI Contract Option Using Palladyne IQ Embodied AI Architecture for Autonomous Robotic Systems, Bringing Total Award to $10.6 Million
The STRATFI program, formally titled “Cybernetic Training for Autonomous Robots – Human Augmentation via Generalizable Mobile Autonomous Robot Dexterity (C-H),” was originally awarded in
The newly obligated funding covers a set of advanced demonstration milestones, including:
- Human-guided machine learning on real robotic platforms, enabling robots to learn complex manipulation tasks autonomously with minimal demonstrations.
- Mixed-reality teleoperation enabling seamless collaboration between human operators and remote subject matter experts.
- Autonomous task execution on robotic platforms in
Air Force -relevant mission scenarios.
Palladyne IQ is Palladyne AI’s flagship embodied AI platform, purpose-built to deliver closed-loop autonomy for robotic systems operating in dynamic, unstructured, and contested environments. Unlike conventional automation, Palladyne IQ enables robots to learn from as few as one to five human demonstrations, generalize that learning across variations in environment and task, and execute autonomously without cloud connectivity, a critical capability for defense applications where communications may be degraded or denied.
The platform is hardware-agnostic, integrating across robotic systems and sensor suites, and supports real-time sensor fusion and adaptive AI at the edge. These characteristics make Palladyne IQ well-suited not only for the Air Force’s evolving requirements in autonomous robotics, but for a broad range of defense and industrial applications.
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About Palladyne AI
Palladyne AI is a U.S.-based technology company developing patented embodied artificial intelligence, collaborative autonomy solutions, and autonomous systems for defense and industrial markets. Palladyne AI delivers secure, American-developed and operated platforms designed to meet the stringent requirements of U.S. government and public-sector customers, including data sovereignty, security, and compliance.
Palladyne AI’s embodied AI is designed to operate in complex, contested, and high-risk environments, enabling distributed tasking, human-on-the-loop decision-making, degraded-communications resilience, and multi-domain coordination. Its platform-agnostic autonomy stack combines real-time sensor fusion, adaptive AI models, and edge-native orchestration to support autonomous and collaborative systems across air, ground, maritime, and industrial domains. For more information about Palladyne AI, including GuideTech and Palladyne Aerospace and Defense, please visit www.palladyneai.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Palladyne AI Investor Contact:
Brian S. Siegel, IRC®, M.B.A.
Senior Managing Director, Hayden IR – Chicago
(346) 396-8696
brian@haydenir.com
IR@palladyneai.com
Palladyne AI Press Contact:
Heath Meyer
(858) 768-1527
PR@palladyneai.com
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