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US Military Awards Huge Contract to Recon Robotics for Micro-Robot Kits

Recon Robotics revealed that the US Army Rapid Equipping Force and United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) have awarded a series of contracts for delivering 385 Recon Scout XT micro-robot kits.

25 Aug 2011

Ocean Power Technologies Installs Autonomous PowerBuoy for Maritime Security Program

Ocean Power Technologies has revealed that it has installed an innovative autonomous wave energy device for seal trials.

24 Aug 2011

iRobot Secures A Futher $21m for Bomb Disposal Robots from the US Navy

iRobot Corp has been given an order by the U.S.Navy worth $ 21 million for the delivery of more than 100 Man Transportable Robotic System (MTRS) MK 1 MOD 1 robots and spares kits. This is the fourth order which is part of a $230 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, bringing total orders under this contract to $36 million.

From iRobot Corporation 23 Aug 2011

Office of Naval Research Tackles Technical Issues in Unmanned Systems

At the AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America 2011 conference, the director of innovation at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Dr. Larry Schuette, said that ONR had to overcome a significant number of hurdles, including littoral and autonomy operations in its unmanned systems.

22 Aug 2011

Dragon Runner Robots from QinetiQ North America Ideal for Sentry Duty

The Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System may be the closest that we humans have come to the legendary Skynet of Terminator. In the movie Skynet is a complex computer that becomes aware of its own existence and sends out robotic armies to kill humans and take over the world.

From QinetiQ North America, Inc 21 Aug 2011

Visiongain Predicts Government Will Invest Huge Amounts on UGVs in 2011

The latest report from Visiongain about the defence sector titled ‘The Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) market 2011-2021: Military Robots for EOD & Counter-IED’ provides a comprehensive overview on the UGV markets worldwide and also provides useful guidelines on how to exploit business opportunities.

20 Aug 2011

QinetiQ North America Launches Micro Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Military Missions

QinetiQ North America declared that the Dragon Runner 10 (DR10), micro unmanned ground vehicle (MUGV) was available for deploying in military robotic missions.

From QinetiQ North America, Inc 19 Aug 2011

Green Hills Software Unveils Autonomous Vehicle Open Platform for UAVs

Integrity Security Services, a business unit of Green Hills Software, has unveiled a new autonomous vehicle (AV) Open Platform for the management of autonomous vehicles and universal control segments used in the special computing and embedded market.

19 Aug 2011

Lockheed Martin Launches Stalker eXtreme Endurance UAS

Lockheed Martin has launched a tough version of the Stalker Unmanned Air System known as the Stalker eXtreme Endurance (XE) UAS. The Stalker XE system provides an endurance time of over eight hours, which is four times that of the previous stalker version.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 19 Aug 2011

U.S Army Awards Unmanned Autonomous Technology Development Contract to Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Marin has been awarded a development contract for US$ 47 million by the US Army for developing, demonstrating and delivering unmanned autonomous technologies for air systems that will be used on cargo resupply missions.

18 Aug 2011