Palladyne AI Corp. announced the creation of a new defense division, Palladyne Defense, after acquiring GuideTech LLC and the two Crucis companies—Warnke Precision Machining and MKR Fabricators—on November 17 2025. The deal brings together Palladyne’s embodied AI platform with advanced avionics, flight‑software engineering, and U.S.‑based precision manufacturing capabilities, positioning the company to design, engineer, manufacture, and sell autonomous systems entirely on American soil.
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