An extremely lightweight opposed piston opposed cylinder (OPOC) engine has been developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program. FEV and Advanced Propulsion Technologies (APT) were asked by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC...

The Berkeley Aerobotics group is also expanding its research scope into the advanced control and coordination of fixed-wing UAVs. Leveraging on their expertise, experiences, and thoroughly investigated flight control software from the rotary wing cousins, BEAR group has created a fully autonomous UAV...

Berkeley Aerobot Team’s Ursa Electra UAV series is, as the name implies, based on an electrically powered radio-control helicopter, Maxi-Joker. It was originally designed to serve as the vehicle platform for a DARPA Perch-n-Move project. The helicopter is capable of fully autonomous takeoff and landing...

BEAR research facility features a fleet of BEAR helicopter UAVs, fixed-wing UAVs, unmanned ground robots, and a mobile ground station. Since its beginning in 1996, more than six helicopters have been instrumented and five of them are in full service. These UAVs are instrumental for the development of...

The Berkeley Aerobot (BEAR) project is a collective, interdisciplinary research effort at UC Berkeley that encompasses the disciplines of hybrid systems theory, navigation, control, computer vision, communication, and multi-agent coordination, since 1996. They currently operate six fully instrumented...

Army testing has shown that Chatten Associates' Head-Aimed Remote Viewer (HARV) more than doubles the mission performance of remote operations. It can be controlled by either a joystick or the operator's head motions. Both of these gimbals are available with a high-precision option, offering...

Major Pottratz discusses EOD robots in use today. TALON EOD robots were the first military robots taken into Afghanistan during action against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden in February 2002. They initially accompanied the Special Forces on a Classified mission, and are still there now doing EOD work...

Military robots are widely used for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), reconnaissance, communications, hazmat, security, defense and rescue. TALON SWORDS robots can be configured with M240 or M249 machine guns or Barrett .50 caliber rifles for armed reconnaissance missions. The system was evaluated...

Meet the iRobot Warrior, the next generation of remote control robotic vehicles; bigger, faster and more capable including a larger payload area and vertical reach. [Video]

Expanding the tactical thinking of how robotics can be used is something the iRobot PackBot is helping to push forward with it's applications in modern day society.[Video]