{"id":264273,"date":"2026-06-04T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/shifters-robots-on-the-frontline\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:15:11","slug":"shifters-robots-on-the-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/shifters-robots-on-the-frontline\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifters: Robots on the frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-898434\">Shifters: Robots on the frontline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-898434\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-898434<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 13:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jpost.com\">www.jpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israeli deep-tech start-up Shifters, which develops AI-native autonomous robotic teams, has raised $10.2 million in seed funding, led by Ace Capital Partners, along with Aurelius Capital Management, Corner Ventures, Arkin Capital, and Fresh Fund. The financing brings the company\u2019s total funding to $15 million as it accelerates development of AI\u2011native autonomous ground robotics designed to keep troops out of harm\u2019s way on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington\u2011based company with research and development (R&#038;D) operations in Israel was founded in 2023 by CEO Ofer Ballin and CTO Assaf Chaprak. It is developing supervised autonomous ground robotic systems intended to enter high-risk and contested environments before troops do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started the company because we wanted to serve, in our view, the noblest of causes: preserving human life. There is a gap today between what technology can do and what still happens in the physical ground domain, and Shifters fills that gap,\u201d Chaprak told Defense &#038; Tech by The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shifters\u2019 platform is built around supervised autonomy, where robotic teams can operate in complex environments while remaining under human oversight. The company says this approach is essential for real\u2011world deployment, where unpredictable terrain and mission\u2011specific constraints require both adaptability and operator trust.<\/p>\n<p>Shifters\u2019 main solutions are TRUST \u2013 Tactical Robot for Unmanned Safety &#038; Security Tasks \u2013 \u00a0a family of rugged AI native autonomous quadruped robots and RITA \u2013 Robotic Intent to Action \u2013 software stack that powers TRUST with four layers: locomotion, navigation, perception, and action.Diehl Defence UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) Ziesel (credit: Diehl Defence)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThe first asset into a dangerous environment should increasingly be a robot, not a person,\u201d Ballin said. \u201cThis funding allows us to accelerate the systems that make that possible: coordinated robotic teams that can be directed, intuitively, by one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-898434\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shifters: Robots on the frontline https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-898434 Publish Date: 2026-06-04 13:57:00 Source Domain: www.jpost.com Israeli deep-tech&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/q_auto\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_720,w_1280\/724364","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,57],"class_list":["post-264273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-robots","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264276,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264273\/revisions\/264276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}