Military Robotics News

RSS

Carnegie Mellon University to Develop a Robotic System with High-Powered Lasers to Remove Coating from Aircrafts

Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) of Johnstown, Pa., are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Ogden Air Logistics Center 309 AMXG to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that uses high-powered lasers to remove coatings from fighter and cargo aircraft.

26 Nov 2012

US Prime Defense Contractors Sign Teaming Agreement with World Surveillance Group

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles ("UAVs") and related technologies, today announced that it has entered into a teaming agreement with U.S. prime defense contractors Command Post Technologies, Inc. ("CPT") and EWA Government Systems, Inc. ("EWA").

17 Nov 2012

Oklahoma Training Center for Unmanned Systems Demonstrates New Precision-Guided Mortar Technology

Marking a key milestone in military technology, experts at the Oklahoma Training Center for Unmanned Systems (OTC-US℠) facilitated a successful demonstration of newly designed precision-guided mortar rounds, dropped from one of the center’s small unmanned aerial vehicles onto a target almost 1.5 miles below.

15 Nov 2012

BAE Systems Successfully Converts 300th F-4 Jet into Unmanned Flying Drone

BAE Systems has successfully converted its 300th F-4 Phantom fighter jet into an unmanned flying drone for the U.S. Air Force. The achievement is a significant milestone in the 16-year-long QF-4 program, which provides full-scale, remotely controlled aerial targets that the Air Force uses for weapons testing and aircraft training.

From BAE SYSTEMS 14 Nov 2012

SAIC to Design ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Prototype

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) announced today it was awarded a prime contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program phases two through four to design, build and test a new prototype unmanned autonomous surface vessel.

14 Nov 2012

Barrett Technology Supplies Robotnik Summit XL Mobile Vehicles to US Navy

The United States Navy has ordered three Robotnik Summit XL mobile platforms from Barrett Technology, in Cambridge, MA, USA. These compact autonomous vehicles are unique because of their special triple combination of (1) independent suspension, (2) independent drives, and (3) omni-directional treads at each of its wheels, enabling unmatched speed and agility.

8 Nov 2012