Robotics & Autonomous Systems

The conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world have brought into very sharp focus an innovative ‘new way of warfare’.

Key to this has been the rapid development and use of uncrewed vehicles and autonomous systems. These have shown that high-volume, low-cost capabilities are able to defeat traditional high-value assets that cost multiple times more than their adversary.

Increasingly, our customers recognise the need to complement traditional assets with a range of uncrewed autonomous vehicles and similar capabilities. Assets that are envisaged to collaborate with crewed platforms, across all domains, to deliver a significant increase in combat mass and effectiveness at reduced risk and cost.

QinetiQ has world-leading autonomy capabilities and a long heritage of research, experimentation and innovation across all domains.

We offer a comprehensive approach to Artificial Intelligence, capability integration and collaborative autonomy, from concept and design, through testing and evaluation.

This also includes provision of complex autonomy enabling services ranging from operational experimentation through to test and evaluation and safety certification.

We work with varying levels of autonomy and mission requirements. This includes technologies for sensing, orientation, decision making, planning and control and strike - all developed with scalability, security and certification in mind.