UGV& Robots

Mahindra Defense System (MDS), part of the $17-bn Mahindra & Mahindra, is all set for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs,) unmanned ground...

As part of its massive $500 billion rearmament program, Russia is likely to focus major efforts on developing unmanned military systems, which could become...

The AMDS program is developing a prototype UGV-based mine-detection sensor suite that can find buried anti-personnel mines. The AMDS consists of a suite of...

A review of new robots that were developed to assist first responders: Police, fire fighters, search and rescue units, medical emergency units and more.

Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have unleashed their latest creation on the university’s campus: the world’s most human-like robot. Nadine, as the...

Keeping firefighters safe and communicating with them have been major technical challenges for decades. While outdoors, they can use GPS to track one another,...

Many companies develop systems for border security. Some of these were recently showed in a Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in...

The Warsaw Police has acquired a new toy for its arsenal: a robot you throw around. The Taktyczny Robot Miotany (TRM), or Tactical Thrown...

AUS&R 2016 focused the attention to the unmanned systems role both in the battlefield and in the homeland security sphere. The convention was a remarkable...

US DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has initiated a new project - its SideArm research effort seeks to create a self-contained, portable apparatus able...

The AUS&R 2015 unmanned systems salon, which took place in Rishon Letzion, was a “world class” success, so stated the presenters and many visitors...

Autonomous vehicles aren’t quite here yet, but they’re getting closer each day. For proof, look to one small experiment being conducted in the Netherlands....

The robotics tech cluster, and Robohub, the global robotics news site, are partnering to launch the first online robot startup competition. Organizer Andra Keay from...

The University of Science and Technology (UST) in Anhui, China recently showcased its incredibly realistic-looking humanoid robot. Jia Jia can talk, make facial expressions,...

Meet the robot which could well be the security guard of the future: A patrol robot with infrared vision, laser radar navigation, 360 degree...

The Picobug, as its name implies, is small. It weighs just 30 grammes, but it can do a whole lot: fly, walk, and (very...

After an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal areas and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, plans were...

Olga Grosman Professor. Zvi Shiller is the Chairman of the Israeli Robotics Association, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Faculty of...

Issues and articles discussed in this episode: Opposition wins elections in India Israel Aerospace Industries introduce new combat engineering robot Experts: In a decade everyone will have...

The Pentagon is concerned with adversarial nations giving robots and advanced weapons systems the power to act of their own accord, said Deputy Defense...

Printing parts for a weapon is one thing – and there’s ample proof-of-concept about to show that 3D printers will only get better at...

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich are hard at work on a new, cool robo-fish. They call it Sepios, and...