Scout AI is a technology company founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company focuses on developing AI-based autonomous control systems for the defense sector. In 2025, Scout AI completed a $15 million seed funding round and signed two separate contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) within the same year. The company attracted attention with its multimodal robotic foundation model called Fury, developed specifically for military applications.
Foundation and Development
Scout AI was founded in August 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis to integrate autonomy, artificial intelligence, and robotics technologies into the defense industry. Co-founder Colby Adcock previously worked in private equity focused on technology and served on the board of Figure AI, a company developing humanoid robots. Collin Otis, the other co-founder, previously held leadership roles in autonomy and AI at Kodiak Robotics and worked in data science and operations at Uber ATG.
Technology and Products
Scout AI’s core technology is based on Fury, an AI-powered Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model designed for defense-oriented multimodal operations grounded in physical reality. Fury is capable of interpreting natural language and visual input to generate real-time motor commands. This functionality enables the system to operate effectively even in environments with limited communication or GPS access.
Scout AI’s initial prototypes, the G01 (unmanned ground vehicle) and A01 (unmanned aerial vehicle), are autonomously operated by the Fury system at the company’s test range in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. Fury facilitates coordination between robots via natural language protocols, allowing human operators to manage multiple robotic units through text or voice commands.
Fury (Scout AI)
Funding and Investors
In November 2024, Scout AI raised $15 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures. Other investors included Draper Associates, Decisive Point Ventures, Perot Jain, Sigmas Group, Evolution VC, BVVC, Habitat Partners, Piedmont Capital Investments, FJ Labs, Revelry Venture Partners, Monte Carlo Capital, Expansion VC, and Gaingels. The company operates as a venture-backed, privately held entity.
Strategy and Partnerships
Scout AI pursues a platform-first and partnership-driven strategy. Thanks to its lightweight, modular, and hardware-agnostic design, the Fury system can be easily integrated into both existing and emerging robotic platforms. The company collaborates with various defense industry partners to enable the use of Fury across different systems and aims to develop cost-effective, scalable AI systems for next-generation defense robotics.
Applications and Objectives
Fury is designed for autonomous systems deployable across land, air, sea, and space domains. Scout AI aims to build robotic assets capable of demonstrating human-like intelligence and flexibility, enhancing human-machine collaboration on the battlefield. The company envisions future combat units where a single soldier can control multiple robotic entities as part of integrated human-machine teams.
Leadership Team
Colby Adcock serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of Scout AI, while Collin Otis is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder. The company’s leadership team comprises engineers with extensive experience in major technology firms and defense-related technologies.
Headquarters and Operational Facilities
Scout AI is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Its R&D operations are supported by a large-scale testing ground spanning several hundred acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, along with a 20,000-square-meter research and development facility. Scout AI continues to develop and scale physical AI technologies for the defense industry. The company upholds the responsible and secure development of AI-enabled defense systems as one of its core principles.
