Ex-Apple Engineer's Startup Sells AI-Powered Surveillance Towers
Greece’s Lambda Automata is latest defense tech newcomer to raise VC money.
A view of the Lambda Autonomous Surveillance Tower in Greece.
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Lambda Automata, a Greek startup from a former Apple Inc. roboticist, is the latest defense newcomer to raise money from venture capitalists betting on the expanding demand from governments for military technologies.
The company, formed in 2021, sells surveillance towers, outfitted with cameras and artificial intelligence software, that are designed to monitor coastlines, forests and national borders. Yet Dimitrios Kottas, its founder and chief executive, described a grander mission for his startup to become “the digital backbone for the age of autonomous warfare.”