Shield AI Expands into Space Domain through Partnership with Sedaro

Shield AI, a deeptech company protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems, led by Gary Steele, Ryan Tseng, ex-Navy Seal Brandon Tseng, Nathan Michael, and others, and Sedaro, powering the future of aerospace & defense with mission simulation at scale, led by Daniel Martin, Robbie Robertson, PhD, and others, have announced a strategic partnership to advance autonomous operations in orbit.

The partnership designates Shield AI’s Hivemind Pilot as the primary autonomy platform for Sedaro’s on-orbit demonstration efforts, marking a transition of the company’s mature edge-autonomy systems from atmospheric and maritime domains to the space environment.

Under the agreement, the Sedaro Platform becomes the central environment for development, testing, and demonstration of Hivemind in space-relevant conditions. The integration of Hivemind’s field-validated autonomous capabilities with Sedaro’s high-fidelity simulation infrastructure is expected to speed up the creation, evaluation, and verification of autonomous behaviors for orbital missions.

According to Christian Gutierrez, vice president of Hivemind Solutions at Shield AI, the partnership with Sedaro and its technology serves as a key driver for advancing at-the-edge, in-orbit autonomy. The integration of Hivemind Pilot with Sedaro’s high-fidelity modeling and simulation environment is expected to enable multi-agent cognitive teaming in space and introduce new mission capabilities across future applications.

The partnership signals Shield AI’s targeted move into the space domain, extending its resilient edge autonomy to satellites supporting critical infrastructure and defense. By combining Hivemind with Sedaro’s trusted, edge-deployable simulation architecture, rapid iteration of autonomous behaviors becomes possible for proximity operations, swarm coordination, defensive counter-space missions, and cognitive battle management across constellations.

Robbie Robertson, CEO and co-founder of Sedaro, noted that the company’s platform is designed to simplify and accelerate the design, simulation, and operation of large-scale missions. The integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy brings similar agility to on-orbit systems, significantly shortening the path from initial concept to validated capability.

The collaboration will span deployment approaches from ground-centric control to advanced in-orbit cognitive capabilities, creating a foundation for scalable autonomous spacecraft operations in contested and communications-limited environments.