UGV News: Unmanned Land Systems & Robotics

The latest Unmanned Ground Vehicle news for robotic and autonomous systems. Articles on UGV military robots, amphibious UGVs, product launches and technological advances in UGV design and manufacture

Autonomous Legged Robots for Construction Under Development

Trimble and Boston Dynamics have partnered to create a new robotic data collection solution for the construction industry, based on...

Oct 21, 2020
DARPA Project to Develop Enhanced Reactions for Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles

DARPA has launched the Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program, which aims to develop new algorithms for...

Oct 11, 2020
Autonomous Reversing Developed for US Army Trailer-Towing UGVs

Robotic Research has updated its AutoDrive-M autonomy kit with a Retrotraverse capability that allows autonomous trucks with trailers to reverse....

Oct 09, 2020
MANET Radios Used to Control Legged UGVs

Silvus Technologies’ radio technology has been utilised during the US Air Force’s second Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) On-Ramp Experiment,...

Sep 15, 2020
Advanced Perception System Created for Autonomous UGV Navigation

iXblue, via its Robopec robotics and AI division, has developed an advanced perception system for research and development of autonomous...

Sep 13, 2020
Autonomous Positioning and Sensing Kits for Agriculture Launched

Hexagon’s Autonomy and Positioning division has launched a new series of autonomy positioning and sensing kits for agricultural applications, through...

Sep 12, 2020
Heavy-Duty Remote-Controlled Unmanned Tractor Released

GESAR Inc has launched the Vole, a long-range remote-controlled tractor UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) designed for small and start-up farms...

Sep 06, 2020
UK MOD Develops UGV for Scouting Water Crossings

The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected a team to develop an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) capability that will...

Sep 05, 2020
3D Sensing & Perception Technologies Used in ADAS Testing Platform

RoboK, a spinoff from the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, has developed new computer vision and...

Aug 30, 2020
Details Confirmed for Virtual Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference

SMi Group’s Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference will take place 2-3 September 2020 as a fully interactive virtual meeting. With...

Aug 27, 2020
Broadband Transceivers Enable NLOS Operations for Tactical Robot

Doodle Labs’ 900 MHz Prism WiFi transceiver and 2.4 GHz NM-2450-2G broadband transceiver have been integrated into RoboteX’s AVATAR multipurpose...

Aug 21, 2020
U.S. Army Robotic Combat Vehicles Program Phase 1 Completed

Persistent Systems has successfully completed Phase I of the U.S. Army Robotic Combat Vehicles (RCV) program, in which it has...

Aug 19, 2020
GESAR Develops Customized Robotic Systems for Industrial & Tactical Applications

GESAR Inc, a leading developer and manufacturer of customized robots and unmanned systems, has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”)...

Jul 25, 2020
Li-Ion Battery Management System Selected for US Army Tactical UGV

The Lithium Battery Company (LBC) has been selected by General Dynamics Land Systems (GLDS) to provide a programmable battery management...

Jul 23, 2020
BVLOS UGV Control & Communication Demonstrated

Patria has performed a demonstration in conjunction with the University of Tampere in Finland of BVLOS (beyond visual line of...

Jul 08, 2020
IP Mesh Radios Integrated into Autonomous Tactical UGVs

Domo Tactical Communications (DTC) has confirmed that its IP Mesh radio technology has been selected for integration into the Viking...

Jul 06, 2020
Improved Autonomous Driving System Training Method Developed

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has developed a new system for training self-driving cars to accurately track the movement of pedestrians,...

Jun 24, 2020
Vision4ce Demonstrates AI-Powered Classification & Tracking for UGVs and Land Systems

Vision4ce has released a video demonstrating its AI-powered real-time video processing, tracking and classification detection technology. The video shows the...

Jun 22, 2020
Off-Road Autonomy Researched for U.S. Army

General Electric’s (GE) Research Robotics Team has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army, under its Scalable Adaptive Resilient...

Jun 17, 2020
Multi-Mission Armoured Combat UGV Demonstrated

Milrem Robotics has demonstrated its new Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) to select military forces from around the world, in conjunction...

Jun 17, 2020
FLIR UGVs Selected by U.S. Army and Navy

The United States Army and Navy have ordered a total of more than 160 of FLIR Systems’ Centaur unmanned ground...

Jun 09, 2020
General Dynamics Delivers MUTT UGVs to British Army

General Dynamics Land Systems–UK has delivered two Multi-Utility Tactical Transport (MUTT) Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) to the British Army, further...

Jun 08, 2020
GNSS Positioning for Autonomous Mass Transportation

This case study from Trimble outlines how the company’s GNSS positioning products are being used by Advanced Smart Mobility (ASM) and the University of Tokyo for research into autonomous driving and intelligent transportation systems

Jun 04, 2020
Clearpath Robotics UGVs Support ROS for Windows

Clearpath Robotics has announced support for Windows on its unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), giving the ROS community more choice and...

May 29, 2020
Customized Smart Radio Developed for U.S. Navy UGV

Doodle Labs’ Smart Radio technology has been used to create a custom MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) solution for the U.S. Navy’s...

May 17, 2020
LEMO Connectors Selected for Notre Dame Firefighting Robot

LEMO has confirmed that its robust push-pull connectors were selected for incorporation into the Shark Robotics Colossus, an unmanned ground...

Apr 16, 2020
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