New Talon Gen IV Engineer Bot From Foster Miller
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 18 of February , 2009 at 2:51 am
Dealing with IEDs is never an easy task, even for a robot. Foster Miller has upgraded their Talon Gen IV Engineering bot to better be able to perform surveillance of vehicles and, if necessary, handle IEDs and other objects. Most of the improvements come from a significantly stronger and more agile manipulator arm, which can now rotate at the shoulder to cover 360 degrees, can extend out to 7 feet (a 2 foot improvement), and lifts up to 65 pounds, a strength increase of 225% over the previous version of the robot. Also new are touchscreens and gamepads for control. It looks like all this is designed to make safe disposal of large IEDs (like those based off of 105mm artillery shells) easier, faster, and safer.
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