Scout AI is a Silicon Valley-based defense technology startup founded in 2024, focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence for defense robotics. The company’s core objective is to build the “AI brain” for uncrewed systems, enabling robots across ground, air, sea, and space domains to operate as intelligent, mission-adaptive agents. Scout AI’s flagship product, Fury, is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model designed to provide warfighter-level reasoning, real-time decision-making, and multi-agent coordination for robotic platforms. By leveraging embodied AI that perceives, reasons, and acts in the physical world, Scout AI aims to deliver a decisive military advantage through scalable, autonomous robotic teams that can execute complex missions even in GPS- and communications-denied environments. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a center of excellence in Maine.
Leadership
Colby Adcock, Co-Founder & CEO: Former tech private equity executive and current board member at Figure AI, a leading humanoid robotics company. Adcock brings deep experience in technology investment and strategic leadership to Scout AI.
Collin Otis, Co-Founder & CTO: Serial entrepreneur and robotics expert. Previously founding engineer and Director of Autonomy and AI at Kodiak Robotics, and Head of Data Science and Chief of Staff at Uber ATG. Otis has built autonomy systems for both commercial and defense platforms and successfully exited a venture-backed startup to Target.
Core Technologies
Fury Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model: Fury is an embodied AI system capable of perceiving the physical world, interpreting natural language commands, and issuing real-time motor commands to robotic platforms. It is engineered to deliver human-like autonomy and decision-making at machine scale, supporting multi-modal reasoning and precision control across ground, air, sea, and space domains.
Multi-Agent Swarm Coordination: Fury enables robot-to-robot communication via natural language, allowing for seamless coordination and collaboration among robotic teams. This supports the doctrine of one warfighter commanding many robots, with agentic coordination as a default capability.
Hardware-Agnostic, Low-SWaP Integration: The system is designed to run on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, requiring only a single camera and low-power inference chip, enabling rapid deployment and retrofitting into existing and new robotic platforms without the need for specialized sensors or high-end compute.
Autonomous Prototypes: Scout AI’s first prototypes, the G01 unmanned ground vehicle and A01 unmanned aerial vehicle, are already operating autonomously at the company’s proving grounds, powered by Fury.
Key Capabilities
Embodied Physical AI: Delivers situational, physical, and adaptive intelligence grounded in real-world data, enabling robots to understand and execute complex tasks with warfighter-level versatility.
Multi-Domain Applicability: Supports uncrewed systems across ground, air, sea, and space, with mission-adaptive reasoning and control.
Natural Language Tasking: Allows operators to command and collaborate with robotic teams using text or voice prompts, enhancing human-machine teaming and user experience.
Comms- and GPS-Denied Operations: Fury is engineered to function reliably in environments where communications and GPS are unavailable or degraded.
Rapid Partner Integration: Scout AI partners with robotics companies to embed Fury into a wide variety of platforms, unlocking advanced autonomy at scale.
Investors
Lead Investors: Align Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures (venture arm of Booz Allen Hamilton).
Other Investors: Draper Associates, Decisive Point Ventures, Perot Jain, Sigmas Group, Evolution VC, Bravo Victor Venture Capital (BVVC), Habitat Partners, Piedmont Capital Investments, FJ Labs, Revelry Venture Partners, Monte Carlo Capital, Expansion VC, Gaingels.
Funding: $15 million seed round closed in April 2025.
Valuation: Not publicly disclosed.
Company Status: Privately held.
Notable Clients
U.S. Department of Defense: Scout AI has secured multiple contracts with the DoD, with its Fury-powered prototypes already operating autonomously at company proving grounds. The company is working with a growing list of defense and robotics partners to integrate its foundation model into operational systems.
