Machina gets $9 million to prove containerized robots can build LUCAS drones near the front
Robotics firm Machina won a $9 million, 18-month award from the Defense Department's Organic Industrial Base Modernization Challenge to show its containerized RoboCraftsman cells can build LUCAS one-way attack drone airframes at deployed sites. Two robotic arms shape metal airframes from software inputs. Machina will first set up two U.S. sites, and a decision on wider production will come later.

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