Red Cat Acquires Quaze to Add Wireless Power for Unmanned Systems
Quaze will operate as an independent Red Cat unit that aims to enable autonomous recharging across air, land and sea to extend mission endurance for robotic platforms.
Overview
- Red Cat announced it has bought Québec-based Quaze and will run the company as an independent business unit to embed Quaze’s wireless charging across Red Cat’s Family of Systems.
- Quaze’s QU6 architecture turns large surfaces into wireless energy access points that do not need precise alignment or physical connectors, allowing drones and robots to recharge without contact in dusty, icy or debris-filled conditions.
- Red Cat says the technology will let unmanned systems recharge autonomously on vehicle ‘motherships,’ uncrewed surface vessels and fixed stations, enabling longer ISR missions, swarming and distributed operations.
- Quaze will remain platform-agnostic and available to third-party OEMs, which Red Cat says opens new revenue channels beyond its own hardware while accelerating adoption across defense and commercial markets.
- Practical hurdles remain: Red Cat flagged forward-looking uncertainties about integration, certification, scale manufacturing and real-world reliability that will determine how quickly wireless charging becomes standard for persistent autonomy.