1,000 ROBOTS, 15,000 DRONES, 30,000 BRAINS | PALLADYNE AI CEO BEN WOLFF
Palladyne AI ($PDYN) CEO Ben Wolff Interview Part 2 | 1,000 Robots, 15,000 Drones, 30,000 Brains
HELICOPTER LIFT. AIRPLANE RANGE. ZERO CREW | EIVIE FOUNDER & CEO DAMJAN ZABOVNIK
Benny Shaw, CEO of The Zero Hour Group, walks the floor at Commercial UAV Expo 2026 in Las Vegas. He is in the coolest room in the world that week, and stops to see the coolest drone in the room. Damjan Zabovnik, founder and CEO of EIVIE, shows off a patent-pending circular wing, coaxial VTOL.
SOFTWARE THAT MAKES MACHINES SMART
Palladyne AI (Nasdaq: PDYN) CEO Ben Wolff sits down with Benny Shaw and JT Paterson from The Zero Hour Group, joined by contributor Jeff Gabel, to talk about software that lets machines perceive, decide and react on their own, from industrial robot arms to drone swarms. This is the definition of autonomy versus automation.
"CAN YOU JUST LEAVE IT HERE?" | EXYN CEO & COO BEN WILLIAMS
What happens when a drone loses GPS, loses its radio link and has no map, deep underground? For Exyn Technologies, that is the starting point. CEO/COO Ben Williams sits down with Benny Shaw and JT Paterson from The Zero Hour Group, joined by Jeff Gabel and World Media White House Bureau Chief Kate Jones.
"WE ARE THE BRAIN OF THIS DRONE" | LANTRONIX CEO SALEEL AWSARE
Lantronix CEO Saleel Awsare sits down with Benny and JT at Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas to explain the system on module that runs a drone's camera and computer vision - why autonomy needs edge computing where GPS is denied, drone revenue of $12.6 million over the past 12 months, and customers from Red Cat to Unusual Machines.
ZHG FIELD DISPATCH | KATE JONES REPORTS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY
White House Bureau Chief Kate Jones reports from Guantanamo Bay on the USS Cole bombing trial, plus updates on oil, the Strait of Hormuz, and Xi Jinping's upcoming visit.
DRONES ARE THE NEW BULLETS: SENTINEL FPV AND COLOR NIGHT VISION
Part two of our hands-on demo with Kopin CEO Michael Murray: Sentinel, the U.S.-built first-person viewer for pilots in the Drone Dominance program, and a clip-on developed with partner Theon that adds color and telemetry to standard night vision goggles.
KATE'S TAKE #3 | THE HALF-PRICE PATRIOT, UKRAINE'S DRONE SURGE, AND A SENATE WITHOUT LINDSEY GRAHAM
Kate Jones - White House Bureau Chief for World Media UK|USA and Pentagon technology scout - returns to cover Lindsey Graham's sudden absence from the Senate, the turnaround between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, and Ukraine's drone surge.
KOPIN'S CEO SHOWED US THE CHIP NVIDIA IS SPENDING BILLIONS TO FIND
Kopin CEO Michael Murray walks us through the company's optical interconnect technology - micro-LED photonics in production and flying in military aircraft today, now at the center of a U.S. import ban on Chinese equivalents, and the Fabric AI partnership aimed at AI data-center compute.
KATE'S TAKE #2 | GERMANIUM CHOKEPOINTS, ITAR'S AMAZON PROBLEM, AND TREASURY'S WAR ON DARK MARKETS
Kate Jones returns to cover the Pentagon's 2022 resistance to off-the-shelf drones, ITAR's limits when Amazon supplies militaries, an RAF Typhoon retrofitted for anti-drone operations, and the Treasury's war on dark markets.
KATE'S TAKE #1 | UKRAINE'S DRONE LESSONS, THE DJI VACUUM, AND REBUILDING US PROCUREMENT
Kate Jones - on the ground in Ukraine at the start of the full-scale invasion, now a Pentagon technology scout - on why off-the-shelf drones reset her read on the sector, how Ukraine runs command and control without air dominance, and the economics problem underneath the drone war.
1,000-POUND PAYLOADS AND A $60M NEW ZEALAND DEAL | POWERUS CO-FOUNDER ZIV MAROM
Zero Hour Group sits down with Ziv Marom, co-founder of POWERUS and founder of Kaizen Aerospace, at the Commercial Drone Alliance Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. — heavy-lift aircraft, xNav autonomy, and missions from precision agriculture to wildfire response.
ONDAS' BILLION-DOLLAR FINANCING, RAIL NETWORKS AND M&A MATH | CEO ERIC BROCK ($ONDS)
Eric Brock, Ondas CEO, answers questions about why Ondas moved to West Palm Beach, Ondas Networks | CEO Eric Brock ($ONDS), operating plans, and more.
ONDAS ORIGIN & INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
Ondas CEO Eric Brock shares the origin of Ondas and more insight into the company's institutional investor base and long-term vision.
INSIDE THE ONDAS TECHNOLOGY STACK | CEO ERIC BROCK ($ONDS)
A deep dive into Ondas' TRL-9 designated Iron Drone and Sentrycs cyber-over-RF systems, why these systems will be required in defense and public infrastructure, and what's on the horizon in the M&A pipeline.
ONDAS CAPITAL | CEO ERIC BROCK ($ONDS)
Hinting at a defense tech podcast, The Zero Hour Group sits down with Ondas CEO Eric Brock for Ondas Capital | CEO Eric Brock ($ONDS), covering capital structure, the institutional raise, and financial strategy.
ONDAS PARTNERSHIPS AND EXPANSION | CEO ERIC BROCK ($ONDS)
Zero Hour Group sits down with Ondas CEO Eric Brock to discuss the company's partnership strategy and expansion efforts across defense and industrial markets.