QinetiQ Providing Marines Additional DR-10 Robots; D Crouch Comments
QinetiQ North America will deliver additional Dragon Runner 10 robots to the U.S. Marine Corps for near term operational support, the company announced Tuesday. Prior to the urgent order for additional lightweight robots, two previous DR-10 orders were made to support the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. J.D. Crouch, technology solutions group president, said the [...]
Harris Corp. has developed a new robotic system for first responders and technicians to disarm improvised explosive devices, the company announced Monday. The company will demonstrate RedHawk at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America conference in Las Vegas, scheduled for Monday through Thursday. “Our goal is to push this technology forward so that one day [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants industry to develop technologies with the goal of improving mobility of robots, Information Week reports. According to Patience Wait’s report, DARPA wants to increase power transmission efficiency of robots by up to 2,000 percent. Currently, robots are about two orders of magnitude less efficient than humans and animals [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to hold a robotics competition, awarding a $2 million cash prize to the developer capable of pushing robotics to the next level. The Defense Department’s research arm announced Tuesday it aims to expand current robotics capabilities in order to support Pentagon disaster recovery missions. The competition will launch [...]
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