Exclusive: Silicon Valley startup breaks cover with plans for robo-armies

State of play: The seven-person company was founded in August. It's based in Sunnyvale, California, where it hopes to siphon top tech talent.

• It has 20,000 square feet of research and development space, plus hundreds of acres for real-world testing in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
• It's backed by Align Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, Draper Associates and more.
• "Our intent would be to put our technology, Fury, in every robotic asset that the U.S. military has, and turn them into intelligent, autonomous agents," Adcock said. That's across air, land, sea and space, he emphasized.
• Partnering with other companies is "a big piece" of the strategy.

The intrigue: Adcock is a board member at his brother's company, Figure AI, which is building humanoid robots. Otis was a founding engineer and director of autonomy and AI at Kodiak Robotics, another player in the autonomy space.

What they're saying: "This new era of AI, it unlocks a new era of capability," Otis said in an interview. "It is the vision that we, in the robot community, have always been striving for."

What's next: Scout AI plans to at least double its workforce by the end of the year.