Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) announced the completion and commercial availability of Palladyne™ IQ 2.0. The Company’s next-generation industrial autonomy software product for industrial robots incorporates capabilities refined through customer trials and operational evaluations. IQ 2.0 is designed to help industries modernize and automate complex work cells, material flow, and industrial operations—particularly in mission-critical environments where reliability, safety, and uptime are non-negotiable.

The completion of IQ 2.0 and its readiness for production deployment is well timed given the heightened focus from the Trump Administration on accelerating defense procurement, restoring accountability, and revitalizing the U.S. defense industrial base. On January 7, 2026, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order and related public commentary prioritizing the Warfighter in Defense contracting emphasizing the need for rapid modernization, improved efficiency, and measurable performance across the defense industry, including explicit expectations around producing superior products on time and on budget.

IQ 2.0 is purpose-built to serve as a practical, cost-effective, and rapidly deployable pillar of industrial modernization—providing a secure software-based autonomy layer for stationary and mobile robots that is hardware-agnostic and can be implemented without requiring wholesale replacement of existing industrial equipment or infrastructure.

A core element of IQ 2.0’s value proposition is its low-code / no-code autonomy framework, which enables line workers and technicians—not just specialized engineers—to quickly program, adapt, and repurpose robots and autonomous machines for new tasks. This approach dramatically reduces deployment timelines, lowers reliance on scarce engineering resources, and decreases overall automation cost, while improving equipment utilization, operational flexibility, and factory-level margins. By accelerating production, improving quality consistency, and reducing cost and schedule risk, IQ 2.0 directly supports the Trump Administration’s objectives of modernizing the defense industrial base and ensuring superior products are delivered on time and on budget.

IQ 2.0: Industrial Autonomy Built for Modernization at Scale

IQ 2.0 is intended to enable industrial and defense-industrial operators to:

• Automate repetitive, complex, hazardous, and labor-intensive workflows using autonomy-enabled systems
• Increase operational agility, production throughput, and schedule adherence through adaptive task execution and real-time decisioning
• Reduce defects, rework, and process variability through consistent, data-driven execution
• Improve operational resilience by reducing dependence on scarce skilled labor for high-variability tasks
• Rapidly integrate into mixed fleets and heterogeneous environments through an open, modular architecture

IQ 2.0 is designed for accelerated robot autonomy deployment across manufacturing facilities, depots, maintenance operations, and logistics environments, where the imperative is clear: deliver more capability, faster, with predictable cost and quality.

“Recent executive orders reinforce what defense and industrial operators are already confronting: modernization and improved operational performance are not optional,” said Ben Wolff, Chief Executive Officer of Palladyne AI. “IQ 2.0 is engineered to help defense and industrial operators modernize quickly raising throughput, improving quality, and tightening cost and schedule execution.”

Wolff continued, “IQ 2.0 was built to operate where modernization happens—on the factory floor, in depots, and across industrial workflows. By enabling workers to rapidly reprogram and redeploy autonomous systems, IQ 2.0 turns automation into a flexible, scalable production advantage rather than a fixed-cost constraint.”

Commercial Availability

IQ 2.0 is ready for customer testing and deployment. Palladyne AI is actively engaging with industrial and defense-industrial customers seeking near-term operational improvements, scalable autonomy deployments, and modernization programs aligned with national defense priorities.