ARX Robotics and Roboneers form Joint Venture to scale UGV production
ARX Robotics and Roboneers form Joint Venture to scale UGV production
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- ARX Robotics UK has successfully participated in Project Convergence-Capstone 6, the largest experiment in US Army history to evaluate emerging military technologies.
- Deployed UGVs supported reconnaissance, counter-UAS, electronic warfare, fires, logistics and casualty evacuation missions across three UK experimentation lines.
- Data generated from ARX's flagship UGV (GEREON) was integrated into brigade, divisional and corps-level networks, demonstrating the platform’s ability to operate as part of a wider allied force.
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London - 6 August, 2026 - ARX Robotics UK has successfully completed Project Convergence-Capstone 6 (PC-C6), demonstrating the maturity, versatility and operational relevance of its advanced land technologies. Held at the U.S. Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, PC-C6 was the largest experiment in the history of Project Convergence, the U.S. Army's flagship modernization and experimentation campaign. Led by the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division, it brought together allied forces from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand and tested more than 100 emerging battlefield technologies at operational scale.
ARX Robotics UK participated in both the combat validation and experimentation elements of the exercise, deploying eight of its flagship GEREON uncrewed ground systems alongside the UK’s Experimentation and Trials Group, 11 Brigade and 3rd Deep Recce Strike Brigade. Across the month-long exercise, the UGVs conducted intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, electronic warfare, counter-uncrewed aircraft system, logistics resupply and casualty evacuation missions. The platforms were deployed 24/7 throughout the entire exercise period, embedded with British soldiers.
ARX Robotics' GEREON successfully completed all the rigorous training scenarios and battlefield tasks, demonstrating its ability to operate at range across Fort Irwin's extreme desert conditions and demanding terrain while remaining connected to allied communications, command-and-control and data networks. GEREON-generated data was integrated into brigade, division, and corps-level networks, validating the platform’s ability to operate as part of a wider allied force.
The trials further demonstrated how GEREON UGVs can move and reposition specialist sensors in forward, dispersed and hazardous locations, extending the operational range, frontage and depth of reconnaissance activity while reducing the exposure to personnel and crewed platforms. The systems carried a range of active and passive payloads, including L3Harris' CORVUS-RAVEN electronic warfare and counter-drone capability, MyDefence’s Watchdog counter-drone sensors and Overview’s Podview system for reconnaissance and targeting.
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Colonel Jim Howard OBE, Commander Experimentation & Trials Group (ETG) for the British Army, said:
“It is great to see ARX Robotics being put through its paces in one of the world’s most demanding training scenarios, both geographically and under highly technology-contested conditions, across mission sets ranging from reconnaissance and counter-UAS to logistics and casualty evacuation.”
“Project Convergence-Capstone 6 provides a valuable opportunity to test how the British Army integrates autonomous and uncrewed systems into land operations alongside existing networks and capabilities, within a multinational corps-level event. This experimentation is central to delivering the Chief of the General Staff’s 20-40-40 vision and understanding how autonomous systems can generate greater mass, reach and operational effect.”
ARX Robotics UK also contributed to the British sustainment line of experimentation, using GEREON for logistics resupply and casualty evacuation scenarios and testing novel approaches to powering robotic systems in the field. The trials included charging GEREON’s robotic control system using a Plasan ATeMM mobile energy platform and exploring its interaction with the British Army’s newly developed hybrid support vehicle. The activity helped examine one of the central challenges associated with deploying uncrewed systems at scale: how robotic fleets can be powered, recharged and sustained during prolonged and dispersed operations.
David Roberts, CEO of ARX Robotics UK, said: “Project Convergence-Capstone 6 demonstrated that our systems are ready to operate at scale as part of a wider allied force, rather than as standalone technology.
“This is an important step in ARX’s growing activity in the United States. It showed that our common, software-defined platform can be deployed across multiple missions, integrated rapidly with partner technologies and connected into allied operational networks.”
PC-C6 focused on validating the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Command and Control architecture and improving interoperability between allied forces. Evidence and feedback generated during the exercise are expected to inform future capability development and acquisition decisions. ARX Robotics will use the operational evidence and lessons generated at PC-C6 to support the continued development of GEREON, its Mithra operating system and future concepts for software-defined ground autonomy.
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About ARX Robotics
Founded in 2022, ARX Robotics is one of Europe’s leading developers of software-defined defence technologies, with a growing presence in the United Kingdom through ARX Robotics UK. The company enhances military capabilities through rapidly deployable unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and modernizes legacy platforms with its AI-powered operating system, Mithra OS. ARX Robotics systems are deployed across several European armed forces and represent the largest Western-built UGV fleet currently deployed in Ukraine. Backed by the NATO Innovation Fund, ARX Robotics is investing £45 million in UK manufacturing and research and development, creating a sovereign industrial capability and strengthening the UK's defence innovation ecosystem through partnerships with leading British defence technology companies. The company is committed to developing technologies that enhance soldier protection and strengthen European sovereignty and defence readiness.
For more information, visit www.arx-robotics.com
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About PCC6
Project Convergence is the U.S. Army’s campaign of learning and experimentation for testing emerging technologies and future operational concepts. The U.S. Army described PC-C6 as the largest experiment in the history of Project Convergence.
Working alongside the Experimentation and Trial's Group, 11 Brigade, and the 3rd Deep Recce Strike Brigade, ARX Robotics provided persistent long-range ISR as part of the UK’s four layers of fires experimentation. Information collected by GEREON-mounted sensors was shared through TAK-compatible systems and SAPIENT. Data generated at sub-unit level was passed into brigade and divisional headquarters and onward to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps’ Joint Air-Ground Integration Cell
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