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In late June, we hosted Europe's largest defense tech hackathon in Munich – here's what came out of it: 150 hackers | 34 projects | one weekend with one mission – develop solutions that will be deployed in the real world 🚨 On October 30, we'll also do a virtual demo day, where you can learn more and ask questions (sign up with the link in the comments) Here's a glimpse: Magnus Freyer and Joshua Soutelo have founded Munin, a startup developing first-line gear to protect soldiers from drone attacks. Kaloyan Miladinov, Ognyan R., Filostratos Titopoulos, and Aleksandar Mechkarov, a team of Bulgarian high school students, have founded a company, SentIRX, to detect landmines using drones and thermal imaging. Claudio Flores explored during the hackathon through project FAR SIGHT how fluorescent nanoparticles can help with ecologically stealthy reconnaissance; he continues exploring this as part of his bio-nanotech startup, Mimotype Technologies GmbH. Nino Lindenberg and Nura (Ngurah) Linggih founded PLENO (Techstars'24), a startup developing autonomous systems for robots; through the hackathon, they looked into building a modular autonomous system for first-person view (FPV) guidance of drones with only a vision-based navigation system for GPS-denied environments. Vytautas Mikalainis started Unbound Autonomy before the hackathon, developing an AI pin for mission-critical operations. Its technology converts noisy, unstructured tactical communications into digital battlefield updates while also capturing and understanding specific visual actions. Calvin Krieger, Christoph Brauer, and Richard Krümmel are founding a stealth startup that uses large language models for intelligence processing. We know three more hackathon alumni who are building startups in stealth, which we cannot make public at this time. Finally, we'd like to thank our sponsors and supporters for making this event possible: First and foremost, Entrepreneur First, Helsing, and Auterion, whose early commitment has been crucial to getting this off the ground. And, in addition, DefSecIntel Solutions, Spleenlab GmbH, Quantum Systems, Delian Alliance Industries, TYTAN Technologies, ARX Robotics, General Catalyst, D3 Venture Capital Firm, Presto Ventures, Project A, Inflection.xyz, Bundeswehr University Munich, TUM Venture Labs Aerospace, BRAVE1, Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub, and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

Over the past 3 months, the Lucid Bots #Sherpa has eclipsed 5,000 flights of extremely hard working labor that didn't require a human to risk their lives to clean a building or a window. This is what the future of robotics looks like. Auterion's fleet management solution will be available to Sherpa customers before end of year, where operators can find extremely detailed insights that help improve operational efficiency and effectively manage their fleet. There are a ton of awesome features in Auterion Suite that we can't wait for you to explore. We've been working with Auterion for some time and are super excited to implement a unique offering that blends our relentless customer success model with the data and operational insights our customers need to reduce downtime and maximize onsite efficiency with robotics in the most simple way possible. Only what you need and nothing you don't. You'll see some correspondence from us soon with next steps. We look forward to talking to you about how we can improve your experience with our products and make you wildly successful, taking on those big projects you have always wanted while you undercut the competition and win. #pressurewashing #softwashing #dirtyjobs #robotics