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Drone SaaS Market Poised for Breakout Growth as AI Unlocks Fully Autonomous Operations

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Cloud-based drone operations, autonomous missions, and AI-powered intelligence are creating new opportunities across infrastructure, energy, logistics, and defense sectors

NEW YORK, June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Market News Updates News Commentary – Artificial intelligence’s progression is propelling the evolution of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) drone operations in the future. Previously, tasks that required skilled pilots and extensive manual data analysis are now simplified through AI-driven software platforms. These platforms manage flight scheduling, navigation, data collection, and analysis. Businesses are increasingly turning to cloud-based drone software to supervise fleets, oversee real-time operations, and improve decision-making effectiveness. As companies look for ways to increase productivity and reduce costs, AI-powered drone SaaS solutions are becoming essential tools in sectors like construction, energy, agriculture, logistics, and defense.   Active tech companies in the news this week include:  ZenaTech, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENA), Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN), Unusual Machines, Inc. (NYSE American: UMAC), Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO), UiPath, Inc. (NYSE: PATH).

One of the main factors driving this shift is AI’s ability to handle the vast amounts of data captured by drones daily. Instead of employees spending hours reviewing images and videos, AI can quickly identify equipment issues, track progress at job sites, identify security threats, monitor assets, and produce rapid reports. This not only saves time but also allows organizations to act swiftly on critical information. Consequently, more companies are choosing subscription-based drone software platforms that provide continuous access to advanced analytics, fleet management tools, and automation features. Forecasts indicate that the global drone software market could potentially double from its current valuation of $12 billion to exceed $24 billion by 2030 as the integration of AI gains traction. Looking ahead, AI is expected to play a more substantial role in advancing autonomous and scalable drone operations.

Future drone fleets will be increasingly autonomous, carrying out tasks such as infrastructure inspections, facility patrols, land surveys, crop monitoring, and defense support with minimal human intervention. The broader AI-driven drone market is projected to climb from approximately $14 billion in 2025 to over $50 billion in the upcoming years, showing significant growth potential in the industry. For investors, the blend of AI technology, recurring SaaS revenue models, and the growing demand for autonomous operations presents an attractive growth story that could position drone software companies as key beneficiaries of the expanding AI landscape.

ZenaTech (NASDAQ: ZENA) Unveils Zoo Office™, an AI-Powered Enterprise Productivity Platform Positioned to Capitalize on the Rapidly Growing Agentic AI Market – Targeting Expansion of Company’s Enterprise SaaS Segment by Leveraging Agentic AI Growing at Nearly 50% Annually – ZenaTech, Inc. ($ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV: ZENA) (“ZenaTech”), a technology solution provider specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) drone, Drone as a Service (DaaS), Enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions, today unveils its strategy for Zoo Office™, a unified AI-powered productivity platform that will serve as a future unifying foundation and brand for ZenaTech’s Enterprise SaaS ecosystem and capitalize on the rapidly growing Agentic AI market. Designed to bring advanced productivity, operational tools, agentic AI capabilities, and industry-specific applications together within a single business platform, Zoo Office represents ZenaTech’s vision for a more connected and intelligent software experience.

“We want to future-proof and enhance our enterprise SaaS solutions beyond traditional software tools, adding intelligent productivity that can automate workflows, execute tasks, and enhance decision-making. Our goal is to deliver greater customer value and recurring revenue opportunities while leveraging agentic AI, one of the fastest-growing segments of the enterprise software market,” said Shaun Passley, PhD, ZenaTech CEO. “We believe the future of software is not more applications, but fewer, smarter, and more personalized platforms. Zoo Office is our vision for an AI-native business environment where applications, workflows, data, and organizational knowledge work together through a shared business context layer. As businesses increasingly adopt AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency and reduce costs, we see an opportunity to accelerate our enterprise SaaS segment growth and contribute to creating long-term shareholder value.”

Management believes Zoo Office comes as businesses increasingly seek to reduce software sprawl, connect fragmented data, and make more effective use of AI across their operations. Zoo Office is positioned to become a primary AI platform and brand under ZenaTech’s software portfolio while the company continues to support existing software brands and offers opportunities for integration into the broader Zoo Office AI-enabled ecosystem.

As part of its phased rollout strategy, the Company will invite selected SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business) participants to join a private beta program to help shape the platform’s development. The first phase introduces the Zoo Office Productivity Core, an agentic office productivity suite that helps organizations remove the frictions of current offerings: subscription sprawl, disconnected data, repetitive processes, and the constant overhead of shuttling information between disconnected applications. By providing AI with a shared understanding of organizational context, workflows, and knowledge, the platform is being designed help to deliver more relevant results while reducing complexity for users.

Future phases are expected to introduce industry-specific solutions and marketplace capabilities designed to further expand the platform’s functionality while creating a more connected software experience for users.

According to MarketsandMarkets, the Enterprise Agentic AI market is expected to grow from approximately $7 billion today to more than $46 billion by 2030, representing nearly 50% annual growth. Gartner’s longer-term view is even more significant, projecting that agentic AI could drive over $450 billion in enterprise software revenue by 2035, highlighting the transformative opportunity for companies building AI-powered productivity and automation solutions.

Waitlist sign up is available via the Zoo Office website link to be part of the private beta program for the Productivity Core that will begin in the coming weeks.  Continued…  Read this full release and additional news for ZENA by visiting:  https://www.zenatech.com/newsroom/

Key Takeaways for SaaS, AI, Drone Market:

AI is driving the shift from manually operated drones to fully autonomous drone fleets.Drone software market projected to exceed $24 billion by 2030.AI-in-drone market forecast to surpass $51 billion by 2033 and potentially $61 billion by 2034.SaaS platforms are becoming the preferred model for fleet management, analytics, and mission planning.Defense, infrastructure, agriculture, logistics, and public safety are expected to be major growth drivers.Recurring SaaS subscription revenue creates attractive long-term business models for drone technology providers.

In other Business/Military/UAV/Drone industry recent and current news of note:

Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace engineering services, announced it has been awarded a pair of contracts to research, develop, and operationally validate SwarmOS and Gremlin-X with U.S. Army warfighters, competitively selected under the Army’s Disruptive Applications Broad Agency Announcement.

“The hardest problem in autonomous systems isn’t making one platform smart, it’s making heterogeneous platforms from different manufacturers collaborate intelligently without dependence on centralized infrastructure that adversaries can target and defeat,” said Dr. Denis Garagic, Chief Technology Officer and Principal Investigator, Palladyne AI. “We solved that. SwarmOS operates on edge hardware in the field in degraded and denied communications environments. These contracts take that proven capability into Army operational validation.”

Autonomous Power Corporation, doing business as “Powerus,” announced a $30 million strategic investment from Unusual Machines, Inc. (NYSE American: UMAC), a domestic manufacturer of NDAA-compliant drone components. The investment strengthens a working relationship already in place between the two companies, under which Powerus sources drone components and hardware from Unusual Machines

The companies’ interests are closely aligned: as Powerus scales its production of autonomous and counter-drone systems, it has been and expects to be a meaningful customer for U.S.-made components of the kind Unusual Machines supplies. Powerus is under no obligation to purchase any specific volume of parts, and the two companies operate independently; the relationship reflects a shared focus on building a domestic, U.S.-based defense-autonomy supply chain.

Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO) is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Skip Dynamix Corporation (“Skip Dynamix”), as described in the Company’s press release dated May 18, 2026 (the “Transaction”).

With the Transaction now complete, Draganfly has deepened its defense platform portfolio and strengthened its position within the rapidly growing market for low-cost autonomous aerial systems. Skip Dynamix’s fixed-wing platform architecture, optimized for affordability and rapid production, is now integrated with Draganfly’s manufacturing, autonomy, AI, and military systems capabilities.

“We are excited to have completed this acquisition and to welcome the Skip Dynamix team to Draganfly,” said Cameron Chell, Chief Executive Officer of Draganfly. “This transaction positions us to meet growing global demand for affordable, scalable autonomous systems.”

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE: PATH), a leader in business orchestration and automation, announced Maestro Case, a new AI-native UiPath agentic case management capability. Available today as part of the UiPath Maestro™ business orchestration capabilities, Maestro Case extends governed orchestration and automation to complex and exception-laden case management, allowing enterprises to manage dynamic, long-running cases with greater visibility, control, and execution speed.

In a recent UiPath survey of nearly 600 C-Suite and IT practitioners at large companies ($1B+ in revenue), 52% reported that the presence of hybrid workflows—a combination of static, repeatable processes and dynamic, context-dependent processes—across their day-to-day operations. Those dynamic processes, such as customer requests, investigations, and approvals, are managed through disconnected emails, spreadsheets, and point solutions, creating delays, inconsistent outcomes, and limited visibility.

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Viettel Group and Vietnam’s Government Cipher Committee Unveil Security Chip Embedding Vietnamese Cryptography in Silicon

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HANOI, Vietnam, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vietnam’s Government Cipher Committee and Viettel Group have unveiled VGC v1.0, a security chip integrating a domestically developed cryptographic algorithm directly into silicon, alongside the country’s first domestically designed secure semiconductor platform.

The project addresses concerns over potential data exposure associated with reliance on imported chips. By embedding cryptographic functions directly into hardware, Vietnam’s Government Cipher Committee and Viettel Group aim to strengthen Vietnam’s control over the design and verification of technologies used to protect sensitive information.

VGC v1.0 contains 300 million transistors in a 10 × 10 mm package and is fabricated using a 28-nanometre CMOS process. In performance tests, it performed encryption and decryption approximately 15 times faster than a software-only solution carrying out the same tasks. The first batch passed technical tests and received certification for socio-economic applications in the first quarter of 2026. Technical safeguards were also applied to protect the design before fabrication, reducing risks of information leakage and reverse engineering.

The Government Cipher Committee’s M2 unit established security requirements, developed the cryptographic algorithm and defined evaluation criteria, while Viettel Semiconductor Center designed and implemented the chip. Based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture, the underlying platform enables Vietnamese engineers to modify processor designs and reuse established verification processes for future chip generations.

VGC v1.0 has already seen initial deployment in secure USB storage devices for Party, government and defence agencies. Planned applications include supporting Vietnam’s national digital signature certification system, which has more than two million digital certificates in circulation. Other potential uses span financial data protection, connected cameras and sensors, and critical infrastructure systems in electricity, water, oil and gas, and telecommunications. Products intended to protect state secrets would require further testing and certification under applicable standards.

“Researching, designing and developing secure semiconductor chips is a formidable challenge, requiring years of accumulated expertise, technological capabilities and highly skilled talent. Yet we believe that starting later does not mean accepting dependence on others. With the right strategy, focused resources and sustained commitment, we can steadily close the gap and move towards mastering technologies of strategic importance to our country,” said Lieutenant General Tao Duc Thang, Chairman and CEO of Viettel Group.

At the launch, the Vietnam’s Government Cipher Committee and Viettel Group signed an agreement covering plans for volume production, multicore security chips, specialist workforce development and testing on real devices. Viettel is also building a semiconductor fabrication plant in Hoa Lac as part of broader efforts to develop domestic capabilities across chip design, manufacturing and packaging.

Beyond the initial chip, the initiative establishes a foundation for future generations of security hardware, supporting Vietnam’s long-term efforts to reduce technological dependence and strengthen control over critical digital technologies.

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USDGO Plus SP Among First Products on OSL’s Instant Redemption

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Eligible professional investors redeeming units of USDGO Plus SP through OSL may receive redemption proceeds on the same day, subject to OSL’s eligibility criteria and applicable terms and conditions

HONG KONG, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Units of PrimePlus SPC – USDGO Plus SP held via OSL are included in the initial batch of products covered by Instant Redemption, a feature OSL Group announced on 2 November 2026 for tokenised real-world asset (RWA) products on its licensed platform.

Eligible professional investors redeeming designated products through OSL may receive their redemption proceeds on the same day, subject to OSL’s eligibility criteria, product coverage and applicable terms and conditions. Designated products may also be subscribed for and redeemed in USDGO.

USDGO Plus SP is a segregated portfolio of PrimePlus SPC, a Cayman Islands segregated portfolio company registered with CIMA as a mutual fund. Under the co-operation framework of 2WA and OSL, fund units stay in custody via OSL, 2WA does not custody client fund units, and Instant Redemption is an OSL platform feature*.

OSL continues to provide custody and distribution for USDGO Plus SP. Instant Redemption does not change the fund’s redemption terms, registration status, offering documents, risk disclosures or investor eligibility requirements.

*Instant Redemption is only available to investors on the OSL platform who qualify as professional investors.

About 2WA

2WA is a real-world asset (RWA) and digital asset technology development company focused on expanding the utility of regulated assets. 2WA applies blockchain technology, including tokenization, to broaden how regulated assets such as fund units and listed equities are held, used and mobilized. Throughout, the underlying assets remain with licensed custodians. 2WA’s objective is to create new use cases for these assets and, in doing so, enhance their overall value for investors and institutions.

USDGO sits at the core of 2WA’s business. As an active contributor to the USDGO ecosystem, 2WA uses USDGO as the primary settlement and liquidity asset across its RWA products, and works alongside partners to broaden its adoption, deepen its liquidity and support the long-term growth of its ecosystem. For more information, visit https://2wa.io

About OSL

OSL Group (HKEX: 863) is a global stablecoin infrastructure company that strives to provide compliant and efficient digital financial infrastructure services globally, empowering enterprises, financial institutions and individuals to seamlessly exchange, pay, trade, and settle between fiat and digital currencies. Grounded in the core values of Open, Secure, and Liquid, it is committed to building a more efficient ecosystem that connects global markets and enables instant, seamless and compliant value movement worldwide. For media inquiries, please contact: media@osl.com

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THE KOREA INDUSTRY DAILY: ROBOTWORLD 2026 to Spotlight Physical AI and AI-Driven Manufacturing With 402 Exhibitors From 17 Countries

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Rainbow Robotics, Neuromeka and Samhyun to exhibit Nov. 4–7 near Seoul; NVIDIA and Qualcomm to participate in conference

GOYANG, South Korea, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ROBOTWORLD 2026 will bring together 402 companies from 17 countries at the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) Nov. 4–7. The 1,198-booth exhibition will explore how Physical AI and AI-driven manufacturing systems are being developed for industrial applications.

International exhibitors will include Taiwan’s Advantech, Japan’s FANUC and China’s Booster Robotics, PAXINI and Unitree. A Canadian delegation of 10 technology companies will participate in the exhibition and conference, while companies from India and Bangladesh will exhibit at ROBOTWORLD for the first time.

The International Robot Business Conference 2026 will extend the discussion of industrial applications through 36 sessions on Nov. 4–5. Its three tracks — Manufacturing AX (AI transformation), Humanoid with Physical AI and Mobility — will address AI adoption in production, robot intelligence and mobility across industrial and service environments. The Manufacturing AX track will feature presentations by representatives from Qualcomm and Advantech, while a speaker from NVIDIA will present in the Humanoid with Physical AI track. Qualcomm will also sponsor the exhibition.

According to the International Federation of Robotics’ World Robotics 2026 report, global industrial robot installations reached a record 603,307 units in 2025, marking an 11% increase from the previous year and surpassing 600,000 units for the first time. Asia accounted for 76% of all newly installed industrial robots, with 457,315 units installed, up 14% year-on-year. Global installations are forecast to reach 655,000 units in 2026, reflecting the continued expansion of industrial automation.

Against this industrial backdrop, the exhibition will explore Physical AI technologies that enable robots to perceive their surroundings, assess conditions and perform physical tasks. Korean exhibitors will address both task intelligence and the platforms and components that enable movement and manipulation.

Rainbow Robotics will exhibit its RBY mobile humanoid and RBQ quadruped series, while Neuromeka will present its Physical Skill Foundation (PSF) technology alongside the EIR humanoid and NAMI mobile humanoid platforms. Neuromeka describes PSF as supporting task execution involving unfamiliar objects and changing work environments. Samhyun will showcase its AXLON actuator series for robot joint actuation, torque control and linear motion, together with the BOLDUM autonomous transport robot for industrial material handling with payloads of up to 3 metric tons.

Beyond individual robots, the exhibition will examine AI-driven manufacturing through systems that combine collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), machine vision and manufacturing software. Exhibitors will demonstrate how process data and material flows can inform robot and equipment operations across production processes.

Humanoid, food-tech and healthcare pavilions will provide focused views of these technologies and their applications. The newly established humanoid pavilion will cover complete robots, actuators, reducers, sensors, controllers and AI software. The food-tech pavilion will feature cooking, serving and kitchen automation. The returning healthcare pavilion will cover surgical, rehabilitation, wearable and care robots, as well as hospital logistics.

Business programs will connect the technology presentations with opportunities for procurement, exports and investment. Export and procurement matchmaking sessions will run Nov. 4–6, with suppliers and prospective buyers matched in advance for one-to-one meetings. A seminar on entering international markets will be held on Nov.5 providing practical information on certification requirements in different countries.

Global Scale-up Day on Nov. 6 will be open to small and medium-sized enterprises as well as startups in AI and robotics seeking investment and growth capital. Conducted entirely in English, the program will bring together venture capital firms, accelerators, strategic investors and M&A specialists.

“With increased participation by global companies and the addition of national and special pavilions, we hope this year’s exhibition will showcase the capabilities of Korean robotics companies and expand opportunities for practical cooperation between Korean and international businesses,” a ROBOTWORLD representative said.

ROBOTWORLD 2026 will take place at KINTEX Exhibition Center 1, Halls 3–5, in Goyang. Information on exhibitors, conference sessions and business programs are available at https://eng.robotworld.or.kr/.

About ROBOTWORLD

ROBOTWORLD is an international robotics exhibition covering industrial and service robots, core components, AI software and manufacturing automation solutions, alongside a conference and business programs. ROBOTWORLD 2026 is hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR) and jointly organized by the Korea Association of AI Robot Industry (KAR), the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement (KIRIA) and the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS).

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