Boston Globe, May 2026
The wars of the future are being waged right now, in Ukraine and Iran, where drones are doing much of the fighting. And the United States has fallen far behind its rivals in its ability to produce affordable airborne robots. Companies in Massachusetts aim to change this by developing cheap, smart, and deadly drones that can be mass-produced by the thousands. Robinson Unmanned in Wilmington and Boston-based Greensight are participants in the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance program, a four-stage, $1.1 billion competition to build more than 300,000 drones in the next two years.
Robinson Unmanned‘s first-round performance earned the company an order for 1,600 prototype drones. Greensight missed the cut, but plans to compete again in future rounds. In the meantime, Greensight already generates millions through sales of military drones, including one-way “kamikaze” drones for US special operations forces.
