The bots, which can hit a top speed of 4.5 mph, will patrol a base in Florida.
The Air Force is enlisting robot dogs to protect the airbase it has branded its “Installation of the Future.” Last week, Tyndall Air Force Base announced that it would be patrolled by quadrupedal machines built by Ghost Robotics. The initiative is part of a bold vision for tech-centric security at the Florida facility, located just outside Panama City.
In military parlance, the robot is a Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or Q-UGV. The specific model is billed as a, and is part of a broader family of robots categorized by role and size. The Vision is the government and enterprise version, although Ghost also makes a Spirit model for university and research purposes. Wraith, a planned future model, will be destined for further military applications., though that company is hardly the only name in the field.
“As a mobile sensor platform, the Q-UGVs will significantly increase situational awareness for defenders,” Mark Shackley, who manages a security forces program at Tyndall,. “They can patrol the remote areas of a base while defenders can continue to patrol and monitor other critical areas of an installation.”
Ghost describes the Vision 60 robots as semi-autonomous, meaning the machines have sensors that help them navigate routes on their own, while still accepting commands from humans. For its own mobility, the Vision 60 typically uses lidar to sense the world around it with lasers. It can also infer pressure from the electrical motors in its legs, allowing it to navigate while walking in terrain it cannot see.that these robot rovers could be controlled from a VR headset.
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