Nexxis (Australia), a robotics technology company, and Digital Concepts Engineering Ltd (DCE) (United Kingdom), a sovereign-British specialist Defence and Nuclear SME, today proudly announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The signing ceremony was witnessed by the Rt Hon John Healey, Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, during the visit of HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier to Darwin.
This MoU, the culmination of six months of mutual engagement, is poised to deliver significant outcomes, including:
- Three potential collaborative bids in the next financial year for UK and Australian government programmes.
- Increased technology transfer between AUKUS nations, enhancing the resilience of global supply chains for both customer bases, and fostering new, meaningful partnerships for the UK Defence New Force Model.
- Support for a tenfold increase in the British Army's lethality within ten years, aligning with its new Land Operating Concept, while simultaneously supporting the Australian Army’s shift towards littoral manoeuvre and a long-range land strike-focused component within a Joint Force. This will leverage both Australian and British Intellectual Property and onshore manufacturing capabilities.
Nexxis, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, with offices in Houston, Texas, USA, London, UK, and Singapore, primarily focuses on robotics technology for the energy and mining sectors. Digital Concepts Engineering Ltd is based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, and Andover, Hampshire, UK.
Attendees at the signing event were introduced to systems from both organizations, featuring DCE’s X-4 marinized Uncrewed Ground Vehicle and Nexxis’ VETOL and Panther Crawler robots. The MoU is designed to support each other’s international expansion and growth, bringing multi-domain, dual-use modular technologies directly to warfighters, scientists, and industries immediately, with broader R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain benefits spanning four continents. Collectively, the organizations can now offer robots across the 1kg to 500kg weight classes, in addition to remote and autonomous operation of vehicles ranging from 1.5t to 80t using DCE’s open-architecture compliant Marionette™ robotics stack. Both companies operate in demanding environments, necessitating ingenuity, shared values, common experiences, friendship, and a strong community spirit—a concept deeply rooted in the Australian cultural idiom of "mateship," which embodies equality, loyalty, and friendship.
Reference: https://nexxis.com.au/
