Black-I Robotics Awarded TSWG Contract
US government’s Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) has awarded Massachusetts based Black I Robotics $800K to develop a midsized unmanned ground vehicle based on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technology.
Feature Articles
Meeting the Increased Demand for Military Robots: An Interview With Foster -Miller’s Bob Quinn
What’s next for military unmanned ground vehicles? According to Bob Quinn, General Manager, TALON Operations, Foster-Miller, a variety of form factors, increased autonomy and a single point of control for multiple robots. Oh, and one other thing - there will be many, many more of them.
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Opinions
Military and Commercial MicroUAV Efforts Picking Up Worldwide
Like their big brother counterparts, unmanned aerial vehicles, Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or MicroUAVs, are expanding into many different markets. Both MicroUAV research efforts and deployments are increasing.
Vendor Spotlight
QinetiQ Rolls Out Field-Transformable Dragon Runner Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Troops now have fast, transformer-like ability to modify the Dragon Runner SUGV to fit a variety of critical missions.
In This Issue:
- Energid Technologies Releases Version 2.0 of its Actin Robotics Toolkit
- iRobot to Acquire Nekton Research, LLC
- Natural Partners Evaluates Evaluating RoboDynamics' TiLR Robotic Telepresence Platform
- RoboDynamics Installs First Telepresence Robot TiLR at the X PRIZE Foundation
- VIA Pico-ITX at the Heart of Modern Robots
- Surveyor Introduces the First Low-Cost 3D Stereo Vision System for Robotics and the Web
- FANUC Robotics Receives USDA Acceptance for M-430iA Robot
- Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and Caterpillar Inc. To Automate Large Off Highway Haul Trucks
