US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

Thousands of Ukraine's cheap Shrike kamikaze drones are getting an AI upgrade that lets them lock onto and chase moving targets on their own. Ars Technica reports that Ukrainian maker SkyFall began fielding the drones in mid-July with autonomy hardware and software from US firm Auterion, and the companies plan to deliver fifty thousand of the kits in the coming months. Auterion co-founder and CEO Lorenz Meier told Ars operators can manually fly the drone into range, mark a target up to half a mile out, then flip it into what he called fire-and-forget terminal guidance mode.

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