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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen nine multidisciplinary teams to develop approaches to explore underground environments as part of DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge. Participants will aim to produce technology platforms in the areas of autonomy, perception, networking and mobility for potential use by first responders and warfighters, DARPA said Wednesday. SubT is …

Mark Frantz, co-founder of BlueDelta Capital Partners, and Joseph Dyer, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, have been named advisers to ASGN’s board of directors. Frantz and Dyer will share with the company’s board their knowledge and insights gained through their government contracting experience, ASGN said Tuesday. ASGN CEO Peter …

Endeavor Robotics has moved to a 35,000-square-foot facility in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in an effort to accommodate robot design, development and manufacturing operations. Sean Bielat, CEO of Endeavor Robotics, said in a statement released Tuesday the new headquarters allowed the firm to keep 100 percent of its staff who build robots designed for …

Leidos and Endeavor Robotics have forged a partnership to bid for increments two and three of the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System program. Tom Frost, president of Endeavor Robotics, said in a statement released Monday the company will combine its experience in ground robotics systems integration with Leidos’ resources …

Endeavor Robotics has partnered with Persistent Systems to install the latter’s radio communications system on the former’s product line of ground robots. Endeavor Robotics said July 12 the MPU5 radio will work to help increase the range of unmanned ground operations and support single-controller operations for multiple robot assets over the Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network technology. “Networked connectivity …

A new Research and Markets report forecasts the global security robots market to grow to $2.36 billion by 2022 at a compound annual growth rate of 8.56 percent. Research and Markets said Thursday that geopolitical crises, territorial conflicts and adoption of unmanned systems drive the global market for security robots. …

Technavio has forecast the global professional service robotics market to climb at a compound annual growth rate of 22.65 percent from 2015 through 2019. Technavio commented that the application of professional service robots in helping humans to perform various operations creates a global demand for robotics. The report also finds that …

A new ReportsnReports study projects the global robotics market to grow 29.11 percent year-over-year from 2015 through 2019. The report predicts the Asia-Pacific region will account for the highest demand for robotic systems as the economic progress in the region leads to industrialization and manufacturing growth trends, ReportsnReports said Friday. …

IRobot Corp. has been awarded a $4 million contract to produce robots and accessories for the U.S. Navy. The Navy ordered iRobot’s model 110 FirstLook robots and the company will deliver the products through February 2016, iRobot said Wednesday. “iRobot is pleased to provide these state-of-the-art robots to the U.S. …

The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has placed a $9.8 million order for 75 small unmanned ground vehicles from iRobot. The lightweight man-portable SUGV includes a manipulator device intended to facilitate dismounted mobile operations and is designed to access locations that are not safe for people to enter, iRobot said …

Tim Saeger, formerly a vice president and general manager at Bose, has joined iRobot as senior vice president of engineering. He will start his role Aug. 3 and oversee the company’s development of robotic technologies and product roadmap, iRobot said June 8. “At Bose, he was responsible for all aspects of product and technology …

Technavio is seeing a growing market appetite for unmanned ground vehicles and has predicted that the UGV market will set a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2015 through 2019. Technavio’s new report attributes this market trend to a growing preference for the UGV’s functions in rescue operations, detonation …

A Research and Markets report says Northrop Grumman, Qinetiq and iRobot represent more than 50 percent of the global market share in unmanned ground vehicles. The worlwide UGV market has an estimated value of $1.51 billion in 2014 and is projected to reach $8.26 billion in value by 2020, the …

Unmanned aerial system builders have been developing smaller drones for non-military fields such as emergency response, agriculture and energy sector inspection, Military Aerospace & Electronics reported Monday. John Keller reports in a video blog from an Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International event last week that there is a growing …

Cisco and iRobot have unveiled the enterprise-grade Ava 500 videoconferencing robot designed for autonomous mobility solutions, TechNewsWorld reported Monday. Richard Adhikari writes that the two companies, which demonstrated the 5 foot-5 inch product at the ongoing InfoComm 2013, expect a product rollout by early 2014. The Ava 500, developed to …