Foster-Miller
God of War? A Profile of Foster-Miller’s new MAARS Robot
Foster-Miller’s first combat robot was a TALON Explosive Ordinance Disposal (“EOD”) robot that was retrofitted with a gun and they called it SWORDS. Foster-Miller decided to design and build another robot that was designed to be armed. The Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System (“MAARS”) has a few features well established in the wired battlefield. It [...]
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[Exclusive] Rodney Brooks Keynote at Singularity Summit
The Singularity Summit is a two day event happening this weekend in San Francisco. The event is being hosted by SIAI, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. This event is follow-on to last year’s Singularity Summit 1 conducted at Stanford. Keynoting the event this morning was Rodney Brooks , of CSAIL and iRobot fame. Brooks [...]
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New $37 Million Order for TALON EOD Robots, Spares
WALTHAM, MA, August 29, 2007 – Foster-Miller , Inc., a QinetiQ North America company, announced today that the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NAVEODTECHDIV) in Indian Head, MD, has raised the ceiling of its $257 million IDIQ (indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity) contract to $290 million and ordered another $37 million of TALON® EOD robots and [...]
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