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LINKOPING, Sweden and LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Divergent Technologies, Inc. (Divergent) and Saab announced the delivery of initial fuselages for a Saab future product concept of an autonomous aircraft.

The fuselage, jointly designed and manufactured by Saab and Divergent, was developed and realized with no unique tooling or fixturing, instead utilizing Divergent’s fully digital, software-defined manufacturing assets. The Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS™) is an end-to-end structural engineering design and manufacturing system leveraging AI-driven design, industrial-rate additive manufacturing, and universal robotic assembly to deliver structures that are faster to develop, higher performance, and lower cost than their conventionally designed and manufactured alternatives.

Watch: Saab x Divergent – Creating Hardware as Software – Intro (YouTube)

The structure will be amongst the largest laser powder bed fusion structures to ever undergo powered flight, marking both a significant technical achievement in demonstrating the absolute scale of Divergent’s fixtureless assembly technology while highlighting the continued expansion of Divergent’s capabilities to ever more demanding applications. The full structure stretched 15 feet in length and comprised 26 unique printed parts, each joined and bonded in the company’s fixtureless robotic assembly cell.

“This collaboration with Saab highlights what becomes possible when ambitious aircraft concepts are paired with an end-to-end, software-defined manufacturing platform,” said Lukas Czinger, Co-founder and CEO of Divergent. “By tightly integrating digital design, additive manufacturing, and automated assembly, our teams were able to realize a large-scale fuselage structure aligned with Saab’s vision, while moving with a level of speed, flexibility, and structural integration that traditional approaches cannot match.”

“Adopting Divergent’s additively manufactured and digitally designed structures in this effort has given our joint team unparalleled flexibility in this development process,” said Axel Bååthe, head of Saab’s Rainforest. “We see digital design and advanced manufacturing as a key enabler of our collaborative success in this project.”

Divergent
Divergent has created the world’s first end-to-end software-hardware production system for industrial digital manufacturing – the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS™) – allowing customers to design, additively manufacture, and automatically assemble complex structures for automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. DAPS transforms the economics, speed, and scalability of defense vehicle manufacturing by optimizing designs, dematerializing structures, and eliminating upfront capex. For more information, please visit www.divergent3d.com.

Saab
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 27,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world. Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.

The Rainforest is Saab’s internal startup for transformative innovation, for more information please visit https://thernfrst.io/

SOURCE Divergent Technologies, Inc.

Developing business ideas in a commercial environment and connecting with entrepreneurs from around the world – this opportunity is offered to the start-up Atera Water through Porsche‘s new social flagship initiative ‘Start-up Your Dream’. This initiative supports fledgling companies worldwide with outstanding innovations that can contribute to improving living and working conditions of people, primarily in countries of the Global South. Furthermore, ‘Start-up Your Dream’ also targets founders who create chances for others with innovative business ideas in the areas of climate change, integration, or education.

After a visit to Porsche’s headquarters in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, the two Atera Water founders, Tai Kee and Dr Adrian Yeo, experienced another highlight: participating in the one-week Ignite program at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. This intensive training program provides entrepreneurial frameworks based on academic research with startups in the Cambridge ecosystem and globally. Participants benefit from practical teaching sessions as well as guidance from experienced entrepreneurs and innovators. Dr Adrian Yeo said, “Participating in the Ignite program enabled us to further develop our business idea and exchange ideas with other entrepreneurs on site.” Tai Kee added, “The keynotes, workshops, mentoring sessions, and networking events were very valuable to us and broadened our perspective.”

As part of ‘Start-up Your Dream’ Porsche supports the participation of the two Atera Water founders in the Ignite program in order to prepare them specifically for the next development steps of their start-up. “With this project, we support selected start-ups in bringing their innovative business ideas to market and in improving the living conditions of people in areas of social engagement important to Porsche,” explains Dr Philipp Metz, Head of the Strategic Field Partner to Society.

The kick-off for ‘Start-up Your Dream’ took place in summer 2025. During a visit to Porsche’s headquarters, the Atera Water founders gained comprehensive insights into Porsche’s world and culture. Until the end of the multi-month program, Tai Kee and Dr Adrian Yeo will benefit from numerous training modules, mentoring offers, and networking events designed to further strengthen their development.

Porsche: ‘Start-up Your Dream’

With ‘Start-up Your Dream’, Porsche is implementing a flagship project to provide support for start-ups. The initiative aims to reach as many people as possible in important social areas. The funding is based on the four pillars of education, networking, mentoring and financing and is individually tailored to the needs of the courageous and creative founders.

About Atera Water

Atera Water is developing water filtration technology designed to make clean drinking water available even in regions where water is scarce or polluted – with minimal use of chemicals. The start-up combines scientific excellence with practical use and sees itself as a partner to help solve global water problems. Atera Water combines innovation from membrane research with applied engineering to bring a cost effective and energy efficient filtration system to market maturity. Initial pilot deployments have shown promising results.

About Ignite

Now in its 27^th year, Ignite boasts an impressive track record: the program at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, has successfully launched numerous new business ventures and strengthened companies in their internal development and structure. Since its inception, more than 1,200 participants from 50 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas have benefited from Ignite. It is estimated that Ignite alumni have created around 300 business ventures that are still active today. The program is designed based on proven methods of academic and practical entrepreneurship education and provides a unique space at the heart of the Cambridge ecosystem.

Porsche: Partner to Society

‘Partner to Society’ is a strategy field in sustainability at Porsche. With various initiatives, donations and CSR activities, the sports car manufacturer aims to assist regions around the world in preserving the environment, guaranteeing good working and living conditions and strengthening social cohesion. Under the motto ‘Creating Chances’, Porsche is particularly committed to self-help projects designed to empower people in their living and working environment – and to help make their very personal dreams come true.