The U.S. Army has awarded FLIR Systems a $30.1 million contract modification to help sustain unmanned ground vehicles designed to support anti-improvised explosive device operations and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection.
Read More »FLIR Gets Military Orders for 250 Centaur Explosive Disposal Robots
FLIR Systems has received $32M in orders to provide the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force with robotic systems designed to assist in explosive ordnance disposal. The company said Monday it will provide over 250 Centaur UGVs under the Army's Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II program.
Read More »Endeavor Pursues Two Army Robotic System Development Programs
Endeavor Robotics is vying for a pair of U.S. Army programs to build robotic platforms that are intended to have plug-and-play and interoperable functions, Defense News reported Monday. The Massachusetts-based company will compete with QinetiQ North America under a a potential $429.1M engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Common Robot System-Individual. CRS-I is designed …
Read More »US Navy Orders Robots, Accessories from iRobot; Tom Frost Comments
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. …
Read More »Marine Corps Orders 75 iRobot Unmanned Ground Systems
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 …
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