Marine Corps futurists prototyping modular ground robot

By Justin Doubleday / April 18, 2017 at 9:00 AM
The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab is working with two companies to design and build a ground robot capable of using different mission payloads, according to a service official. The warfighing lab is contracting with TORC Robotics and Pratt & Miller to build a modular vehicle, with an eye toward experimenting with the system in 2018, according to Dave Stone, senior engineer at MCWL. He said the Marines want a vehicle capable of switching out payloads easily, with the ability to...

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