WASHINGTON – (December 3, 2025) – Shield AI and Sedaro have announced a strategic partnership focused on advancing autonomous operations in the orbital domain. The collaboration establishes Shield AI’s Hivemind Pilot as Sedaro’s preferred autonomy software for on-orbit demonstrations, extending its proven edge autonomy from air and sea platforms into space.
Under the agreement, Shield AI will leverage the Sedaro Platform as its primary environment for developing, testing, and demonstrating Hivemind in relevant space scenarios. Combining Hivemind’s battle-proven autonomy with Sedaro’s high-fidelity simulation capabilities is expected to accelerate the design, simulation, and validation of autonomous behaviors for critical orbital missions.
“The strategic partnership with Sedaro and its technology is a critical enabler of at-the-edge, in-orbit autonomy,” said Christian Gutierrez, Vice President of Hivemind Solutions at Shield AI. “Combining Hivemind Pilot with Sedaro’s high-fidelity models and simulation environment will unlock multi-agent cognitive teaming for space applications and new mission capabilities for our customers.”
This move signals Shield AI’s deliberate expansion into the space domain, introducing the same resilient, edge-based autonomy currently used to redefine warfare to satellites providing national defense and critical infrastructure. Integrating Hivemind with Sedaro’s collaborative, edge-deployable simulation architecture—which is trusted by the U.S. Space Force, Space Development Agency (SDA), NASA, and leading primes—will allow Shield AI to rapidly iterate autonomous behaviors for:
- Proximity Operations
- Swarm Coordination
- Defensive Counter-Space
- Cognitive Battle Management across constellations
“At Sedaro, we make it easier, faster, and safer to design, simulate, and operate missions at scale,” said Robbie Robertson, CEO and Co-founder of Sedaro. “Integrating Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy brings that same agility to on-orbit systems, dramatically reducing time from concept to proven capability.”
The companies plan to collaborate on deployment designs ranging from ground-based centric control to in-orbit cognitive capabilities, aiming to pave the way for scalable, autonomous spacecraft operations in contested and communications-limited environments.
