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Military eyes new robotic vision system
Washington (UPI) Jan 25, 2008 Researchers say the military may employ small robots equipped with advanced three-dimensional vision technology in as little as a year. The U.S. military plans to use three-dimensional flash laser radar-, or ladar-, equipped robots to explore chemically contaminated areas and researchers see the technology reaching the consumer markets shortly thereafter, the Christian Science Monitor reported Friday. Current vision technology requires large transportation mediums but ladar allows for much smaller machines. One researcher hails the program as "one of the holy grails of robotics" to employ advanced vision technology on small systems. Systems in place now stall on many pedestrian-avoidance trials, but the flash ladar uses radar feed-back technology to produce a 3-D image in a field as wide as one kilometer almost instantaneously. The program is a joint venture between iRobot, which makes the automated vacuum cleaner Roomba, and Advanced Scientific Concepts. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links The latest in Military Technology for the 21st century at SpaceWar.com
DRS Tech Gets Contract To Supply Marine Corps With Rugged Tablet Computers
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Jul 10, 2007DRS Technologies has received a $5 million award as part of a previous contract to provide military rugged tablet (MRT) computers and peripheral equipment for the U.S. Marine Corps' Target Location Designation Handoff System (TLDHS) program. DRS received the order from Stauder Technologies in St. Peters, Missouri. For this contract the company's DRS Tactical Systems business unit in Melbourne, Florida, will produce hundreds of the handheld MRT computers and peripheral equipment. |
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