Palmer Luckey’s Anduril will design protective body armor and other tools for them.
A startup backed by de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences wants to change how the U.
Anduril’s co-founder and entrepreneur Ben Lamm conceived of company to clone and genetically edit working canines .
Tech billionaire Palmer Luckey has launched a new startup to breed “genetically enhanced” dogs and equip them with combat gear.
As of mid-October 2026, the Colossal Biosciences “dire wolves” (Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi) are essentially full-grown or very close to it.
What brave new world is this where genetically engineered military work dogs are not the stuff of science fiction but, soon, the stuff of science fact? That is one of the upshots from news that Forbes .
The company wants to improve the health and longevity of the dogs, and also their traits such as speed and agility.
The Anduril billionaire's latest plan: a dog with "advanced cybernetic Augments, software, and battlefield situational awareness.
(Beyond Pesticides, March 17, 2026) An article in Microorganisms by researchers from the U.
Palmer Luckey, CEO of Anduril, collaborates with Colossal Biosciences to develop genetically modified, cybernetically enhanced dogs for military and law enforcement applications.