Military Robots

Modern militaries are steadily integrating ground robots—often called robotic combat vehicles (RCVs) or autonomous ground systems (AGS)—as force multipliers that enhance the reach, endurance, and situational awareness of human units. These platforms handle hazardous or burdensome tasks, allowing squads and platoons to operate more safely and focus on mission execution. Ukraine’s extensive use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), including the delivery of more than 150 […] Read More

Servosila introduces a new member of the family of Servosila “Engineer” robots, a UGV called “Radio Engineer”. This new variant of the well-known backpack-transportable robot features a Software Defined Radio (SDR) payload module integrated into the robotic vehicle.   “Several of our key customers had asked us to enable an Electronic Warfare (EW) or Cognitive Radio applications in our robots”, – says a spokesman for […] Read More

Elmo’s standard, high-current, compact, rugged servo drives have proven high performance and utmost reliability in one of the world’s most advanced combat tanks NASHUA, N.H. – Aug. 24, 2017 – Elmo Motion Control (Elmo), a leading provider of innovative motion solutions designed to make intelligent machines smarter, announces that it is completing the upgrade of the turret control systems on the entire fleet of the […] Read More

SAN DIEGO — More than 300 students making up 44 teams and representing eight countries will compete in the 20th International RoboSub Competition to be held July 26–30 at the U.S. Navy’s research pool on Point Loma. Hosted by the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) in Point Loma, the competition challenges teams to design and build autonomous underwater vehicles capable […] Read More

The new ship deveoped by DARPA, has been designed for traveling on open seas for months, without a single crew member on board. In the test, the ship has reached 50 km / hour and will start to be tested this summer off California coast in Pacific. The robot ship will be used for locating enemy submarines completely autonomously and in case of conflict, engage […] Read More

In a sign that all warfare is becoming more and more taken over by robots and autonomous vehicles, the US Navy just demonstrated that it can accompany its ships with autonomous vehicles. These robot boats, would protect the main ship, which is of high value and containing soldiers. It would also swarm an enemy boat, deflect or destroy it. Making vehicles autonomous has been an […] Read More

We have seen robots replacing or fighting against humans on the battlefield, only in the movies so far. However, the technology has come so far, that it is now openly pronounced by the military. DOD officials have stated that the number of soldiers will shrink from 540,000 to 450,000 by 2020, where the difference will be compensated by robots. For a full story, please see […] Read More

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The new arm attached to Boston Dynamic’s famous Bigdog robot seems to be doing a good job. The blocks weigh more than 35 pounds (16 kg) and the robot can throw them to a distance of 17 feet (5m). The first version of Big dog robot had appeared few years ago, and throughout its advancing versions we made posts on our site. The purpose of […] Read More

A new autonomous flying robot has been developed by the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. The robot is able to avoid obstacles totally by itself, without any human guidance. It produces a 3D map of its environment and then locate the obstacles within the map. Autonomously locating the obstacles while flying has a main advantage over remote controlled operation, such as the ability to […] Read More