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Robotics

  • Rafael Advanced Defense Systems says multidimensional battlefields require linked technologies like this drone and robot dog that map indoor threats using artificial intelligence and optical scanning. (Rafael)
    Rafael combines technologies to give combat robots a ‘brain’ to map threats indoors

    Watch a robot dog and drone work together, linking technologies for a multidimensional battlefield.

    Seth J. Frantzman
    January 6
  • The Legged Squad Support System, or LS3, is demoed by engineers at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Legged robots such as this are likely to be early candidates for programs looking to add muscle to the machines for better stability and mobility on uneven terrain. (Sgt. Michael Walters/Marine Corps)
    Not quite the Terminator, but ‘muscle-bound’ robots are coming for the Army, Marines

    Muscle tissue added to robots will give them “never before seen mobility and agility.”

    Todd South
    December 30, 2020
  • The use of bots at the Defense Logistics Agency has contributed 200,000 hours of work. (ipopba/Getty Images)
    Defense Logistics Agency finds improvements through robotic process automation

    Bots at DLA have contributed over 200,000 hours of work.

    Andrew Eversden
    December 29, 2020
  • Milrem has demonstrated its autonomous THeMIS ground vehicle to the Italian Army. (Business Wire via AP)
    Estonian robotics company makes inroads with European armies

    Estonian robotics firm Milrem has signed up Italy as the latest country considering the THeMIS ground vehicle for its armed forces, the company said.

    Sebastian Sprenger
    November 6, 2020
  • An explosive ordnance disposal team with 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistic Group, utilize a water charge placed by a small unmanned ground vehicle to neutralize a civilian drone in Fort Greely, Alaska, Feb. 25, 2020, as a part of U.S. Northern Command exercise Arctic Edge 2020. Marines participating in the training will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain readiness in arctic regions including Alaska, the most strategic place in the world. (Christopher England/Marine Corps)
    Drones that work in the cold are so hot right now

    Making sure water weapons still work is a vital task for arctic training.

    Kelsey D. Atherton
    March 10, 2020
  • The amphibious GuardBot can also travel on dry land. (GuardBot)
    Are orbs the future of security drones?

    Dronemaker partners with rolling robot for new scout offering.

    Kelsey D. Atherton
    March 6, 2020
  • The flexibility of the ever-tapering tentacles on an octopus, combined with grippers, inspired a robotic grabbing tool. (Pseudopanax via Wikimedia Commons)
    What every bomb squad robot needs ... a tentacle?

    Coiling tentacles with vacuum-powered grippers could handle objects on the battlefields of the future.

    Kelsey D. Atherton
    February 27, 2020
  • Team Robotika is one of two team to compete in both the physical and the virtual track of the Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit. (Image courtesy DARPA)
    DARPA wants to fill in a void on underground robotic operations

    In the bones of a never-used nuclear reactor, competitors at the DARPA-hosted Subterranean Challenge are exploring how robots can find people and items underground.

    Kelsey D. Atherton
    February 25, 2020
  • The RS2-H1 system from Howe & Howe Technologies, top left; the Hunter Wolf system from HDT Global, top right; the MRZR-X system from Polaris Industries, Applied Research Associates and Neya Systems, bottom left; and the Multi-Utility Tactical Transport, or MUTT, from General Dynamics Land Systems, bottom right. (U.S. Army)
    After protest, Army launches new competition for robotic mule

    Four candidates are back in the running to compete to be the Army's robotic mule for the light infantry.

    Jen Judson
    February 18, 2020
  • By shedding moisture when heated, these soft robotic fingers can grip hot objects without overheating. (Screenshot by author from Science Robotics)
    Watch this robot hand sweat to beat the heat

    Using special hydrogels actuators, this Navy-funded robot can passively regulate temperature.

    Kelsey D. Atherton
    February 3, 2020
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