Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare

Published on December 1, 2023



Autonomous drones are rapidly changing combat. Anduril’s new one aims to gain an edge with jet power and AI.

After Palmer Luckey founded Anduril in 2017, he promised it would be a new kind of defense contractor, inspired by hacker ingenuity and Silicon Valley speed. The company’s latest product, a jet-powered, AI-controlled combat drone called Roadrunner, is inspired by the grim reality of modern conflict, especially in Ukraine, where large numbers of cheap, agile suicide drones have proven highly deadly over the past year. “The problem we saw emerging was this very low-cost, very high-quantity, increasingly sophisticated and advanced aerial threat,” says Christian Brose, chief strategy officer at Anduril.

Read More: https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-roadrunner-drone/

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