ARX Robotics company profile
ARX Robotics builds modular unmanned ground vehicles and autonomy systems for defence and security users. Its platforms are designed for tasks such as transport, surveillance, training and mission support, giving military and public-safety operators robotic systems for field operations.
Facts
- Segment: Defense
- Country: Germany
- Founded: 2022
- Website: https://www.arx-robotics.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Commercial
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Operations / Deployments
- Team
- Supply chain relationships
- Relationships
- Context tags
- Customers and deployments
- Record / Articles
- Sources
Summary
ARX Robotics builds modular unmanned ground vehicles and autonomy systems for defence and security users. Its platforms are designed for tasks such as transport, surveillance, training and mission support, giving military and public-safety operators robotic systems for field operations.
Market context
ARX matters because it pairs deployable ground-robot hardware with software for upgrading legacy military fleets, giving it relevance beyond a single UGV platform.
Products
- GEREON RCS
- Hector
- Mithra OS
Facts
- Website: https://www.arx-robotics.com/
- HQ: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Founded: 2022
- Segment: Defense
- Known funding rounds: 2
Funding
- 2025-07-29 - Series A extension - $13M - ARX Robotics extends Series-A by €11 million led by Speedinvest - source: arx-robotics.com
- 2025-04-28 - Series A - $36M - ARX Robotics raises €31 million Series A led by HV Capital - source: arx-robotics.com
Investors
- Speedinvest - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-29
- HV Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-28
- NATO Innovation Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-28
- Omnes Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-28
- Project A - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-28
Commercial
4 commercial events; 2 contract awards; 2 commercial orders; latest event 2026-05-06
- 2026-05-06 - Commercial order - ARX Robotics secures major Ukraine order for connected GEREON UGV fleet - source: arx-robotics.com
- 2026-04-15 - Contract award - ARX Robotics secures first British Army contract for UK-manufactured GEREON UGVs - source: adsadvance.co.uk
- 2025-11-19 - Commercial order - ARX Robotics secures major order to expand GEREON UGV fleet in Ukraine - source: arx-robotics.com
- 2025-03-03 - Contract award - ARX Robotics awarded European Defence Agency contract to support autonomous systems validation campaign - source: arx-robotics.com
Defence unmanned ground systems company
ARX Robotics develops unmanned ground vehicles and Mithra OS software for European defence modernization and legacy fleet autonomy.
- Target environment: Defence field operations, land-force logistics, surveillance missions, training areas and contested ground environments.
- Deployment model: UGV platform supply, autonomy software, defence contracts and legacy fleet digitalization programs.
- Customer context: European armed forces, defence agencies, land forces and military units adopting robotic ground systems.
- Workflow context: Ground reconnaissance, logistics support, autonomous mobility, fleet digitalization, surveillance and soldier risk reduction.
- Commercial maturity: Scaling defence robotics company with European production activity and military customer deliveries.
- Market position: European defence robotics company focused on modular UGVs and autonomous ground systems.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on military procurement, battlefield validation, production scale, platform reliability, interoperability and doctrine development.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes UGVs, defence autonomy, autonomous ground systems, legacy fleet digitalization and European defence robotics.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-06-26 - Production Milestone - ARX Robotics and Roboneers form ARX Industries for Rys Pro UGV production - Reports describe first-year production plans of several thousand Rys Pro systems.
- 2026-05-06 - Commercial Order - ARX Robotics secures major Ukraine order for connected GEREON UGV fleet - ARX Robotics secured a major order in Ukraine to expand the connected GEREON unmanned ground vehicle fleet.
- 2026-04-28 - Partnership - ARX Robotics and Supacat sign UK defence robotics partnership - ARX Robotics and Supacat signed an MoU to integrate uncrewed ground systems with high-mobility military vehicle platforms.
- 2026-04-15 - Contract Award - ARX Robotics secures first British Army contract for UK-manufactured GEREON UGVs - Through Task Force RAPSTONE, ARX Robotics UK received an initial British Army order for UK-manufactured GE…
- 2026-01-21 - Product Launch - ARX Robotics unveils Hector optionally manned software-defined UGV - ARX introduced Hector as an optionally manned platform designed to be crew-driven to the edge of the mission area and th…
- 2025-12-11 - Demonstration - ARX Robotics and Helsing complete unmanned Recce-Strike demonstration with British Armed Forces in Kenya - British soldiers completed a ground-to-air Recce-Strike sequence using an ARX Gereo…
- 2025-10-29 - Partnership - ARX Robotics and RENK establish software-defined defence mobility partnership - RENK and ARX said they would combine RENK mobility systems with ARX's Mithra OS to digitize and add autonomy to…
- 2025-10-16 - Partnership - ARX Robotics and DEUTZ form strategic partnership for digitalized drives and unmanned defence systems - DEUTZ and ARX said they would integrate DEUTZ drive systems with ARX unmanned ground veh…
- 2025-09-09 - Partnership - ARX Robotics and Helsing enter strategic partnership for AI-enabled reconnaissance and strike systems - ARX Robotics and Helsing announced a strategic partnership to develop an AI-based reconn…
- 2025-07-29 - Funding - ARX Robotics extends Series-A by €11 million led by Speedinvest - ARX Robotics announced an €11 million extension of its Series A round led by Speedinvest.
- 2025-07-09 - Partnership - RENK and ARX Robotics form software-defined defense mobility partnership - The partnership targeted scaled UGV production, international expansion and autonomous defense mobility functions.
- 2025-04-28 - Funding - ARX Robotics raises €31 million Series A led by HV Capital - ARX Robotics announced a €31 million Series A financing round led by HV Capital.
- 2025-04-09 - Org Change - ARX Robotics opens UK office and plans south-west England production site - ARX announced a new London headquarters and plans for a production and R&D facility in south-west England.
- 2025-03-03 - Contract Award - ARX Robotics awarded European Defence Agency contract to support autonomous systems validation campaign - ARX Robotics was awarded a contract by the European Defence Agency to participate i…
- 2025-02-06 - Production Milestone - ARX Robotics opens Europe's largest production facility for autonomous defence systems - ARX Robotics announced the opening of what it described as Europe's largest production facilit…
Operations / Deployments
- 2026-06-26 - Production Milestone - ARX Robotics and Roboneers form ARX Industries for Rys Pro UGV production - Reports describe first-year production plans of several thousand Rys Pro systems.
- 2025-04-09 - Org Change - ARX Robotics opens UK office and plans south-west England production site - ARX announced a new London headquarters and plans for a production and R&D facility in south-west England.
- 2025-02-06 - Production Milestone - ARX Robotics opens Europe's largest production facility for autonomous defence systems - ARX Robotics announced the opening of what it described as Europe's largest production facilit…
Team
- Marc Wietfeld - Co-Founder and CEO
- Stefan Roebel - COO - Adds operating leadership context for ARX as it scales defence robotics programs in Europe.
- Maximilian Wied - Co-Founder and CFO
- Ciaran Murphy - CTO
Supply chain relationships
- UGV supplier - ARX Robotics secured a major Ukraine order for a connected GEREON UGV fleet.
- technology_partner - ARX Robotics has a public integration relationship with Helsing.
- technology_partner - ARX Robotics has a public integration relationship with DEUTZ.
- technology_partner - ARX Robotics has a public integration relationship with RENK.
Relationships
- UGV procurement customer - ARX Robotics secured a first British Army order for UK-manufactured GEREON unmanned ground vehicles.
- RENK - Defense mobility partnership - RENK and ARX Robotics established a software-defined defense mobility partnership for unmanned ground-vehicle industrialization.
- Supacat - Crewed-uncrewed teaming partner - ARX Robotics and Supacat are partnering to integrate ARX UGVs and Mithra software with Supacat high-mobility defense vehicles.
- commercial_order - ARX Robotics secured a major order to expand the GEREON UGV fleet in Ukraine.
- customer - ARX Robotics has a public supply relationship with European Defence Agency.
- customer - ARX Robotics has a public supply relationship with Ukraine Armed Forces.
- customer - ARX Robotics has a public supply relationship with British Army.
- Roboneers - ARX Industries JV - ARX Robotics and Roboneers formed ARX Industries to serially produce Rys Pro UGVs in Germany and Ukraine.
Context tags
- Defence UGV builder - Peer Group
- Tactical off-road autonomy - Workflow
- Defence ground mobility - Workflow
- Defence UGV OEM - Stack Layer
- Defence customers - Customer Environment
Customers and deployments
- Customer Bound UGV Fleet - connected GEREON UGV fleet order - 2026-05-06 - Ukrainian defense-aligned customer - defense UGV fleet - ARX Robotics secured a major Ukraine order for a connected GEREON UGV fleet using Mithr…
- Customer Bound UGV Order - first British Army order for UK-manufactured GEREON UGVs - 2026-04-15 - British Army - unmanned ground vehicle procurement - ARX Robotics secured its first British Army order for UK-manufactur…
- Order Status - major Ukraine fleet-expansion order - 2025-11-19 - Ukraine customer - defense UGV fleet expansion - ARX Robotics secured a major order to expand the GEREON unmanned ground vehicle fleet in Ukraine. - sour…
- Facility Opening - production facility for autonomous defence systems - 2025-02-06 - ARX production facility - autonomous defense systems manufacturing - ARX Robotics opened a production facility for autonomous defense…
Record / Articles
- 2026-04-15 - ARX Robotics is building software-defined ground platforms into an interoperable defense layer - A British Army contract through Task Force RAPSTONE and a RENK manufacturing partnership accelerate ARX groun…
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