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 Manufacturing Technology Lab
Completes $14 Million Series A
Funding
Machina Labs announced in late November that it had closed a Series A financing round worth $14 million.
The Chatsworth, CA. company that applies artificial intelligence and robotics to manu- facturing will use the money to grow its team and to expand its research and development and manufacturing capacity.
Machina Labs has raised a total of $16.3 million in financing.
Edward Mehr, chief executive and co-found- er, said that manufacturing must be rein- vented to keep pace with changes in a highly competitive market.
The company said that its manufacturing platform combines advances in robotics and artificial intelligence to democratize access to rapid manufacturing so that anyone with an idea can make parts quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively, Mehr said in a statement.
Founded in 2019, Machina Labs has done pi- lot programs with NASA and the U.S. Air Force and is now working on commercial engagements. It has begun work with NASA on using its technology for in-space manufacturing while with the Air Force its technology is accel- erating the development of composite molds and the production of parts in applications such as drones.
GA-ASI Has New Air Force Proj-
ectThe U.S. Air Force has selected two San Diego companies to design and develop an aircraft it calls Off-Board Sensing Station, or OBSS.
Poway-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. announced on Nov. 2 that it received a $17.8 million research and de- velopment award from the Air Force Research Laboratory. Its announcement was accompa- nied by a photo of its jet-powered Predator C aircraft.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. based in Scripps Ranch, announced in late October that is received a similar contract, worth $17.7 million, to conduct R&D related to an OBSS aircraft.
The Air Force lab is developing what it calls an open architecture concept Autono- mous Collaborative Platform (ACP) to achieve its goals of rapid time-to-market and low acquisition cost.
Both contracts are for 12 months. The Air
Force has options to extend either contract. Options would provide for the design, develop- ment and flight demonstration of an aircraft, and carry work out to January 2024.
Voyager Space and Space Micro
Inc. Announce Strategic Agree-
ment
Denver based Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager) announced its intent to acquire a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Space Micro is a highly innovative engineering-driven business focused on advancing high-performance satellite communications, digital, and electro- optical systems with over 2.7 million hours of space flight heritage. Space Micro developed the world’s highest data rate Laser Communications Terminal in orbit. As part of the agreement, Voyager intends to provide strategic operations support to help advance Space Micro’s technology throughput to civil, commercial, and defense customers.
Founded in 2002, Space Micro delivers best- in-class satellite technology to the growing commercial market. Space Micro delivered its first computer and image-processing subsystem in space within the first four years as an or- ganization, then went on to develop its first advanced Software Defined Radios for NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), Lunar Atmosphere Dust and Environment Explorer (LADEE), and The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Aerospace Robotics Market Worth $4.9 Billion by 2026
   According to a research report “Aerospace
Robotics Market Robot Type  Global Forecast
to 2026”, published by MarketsandMarketsTM,
the Aerospace Robotics Market is estimated at
USD 2.9 billion in 2021 and is projected to
reach USD 4.9 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of
11.4% from 2021 to 2026. The aerospace robot-
ics market is growing at a significant rate
across the world, and a similar trend is ex-
pected to be observed during the forecast pe-
riod. Increase in global aircraft demand and
manufacturing, increasing use of robots for
efficient aircraft production processes, grow-
ing use of robotics to handle aircraft orders
backlog, increasing manual labor cost are
fueling the growth of the aerospace robotics
market.
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