FORT POLK, La. (Army News Service, Aug. 11, 2008) -- A recent television series featured competition between teams composed of engineers, mechanics and computer experts. The teams competed by building ...

Expendable. It's a word that is rapidly disappearing from use when describing soldiers in the field. Instead, that label has fallen on the shoulders of the newest unit in armed forces: the robot.

MCLEAN, Va. , May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- QinetiQ North America, a global developer of innovative technology solutions for national defense, today announced that the Foster-Miller subsidiary of its ...

October 17, 2007 The manufacturer of the TALON® and SWORDS robot units for military and first response scenarios has introduced a new Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System. Known as MAARS™, the robot ...

QinetiQ has extended its TALON family of robots, 2,500 of which have already been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, to ensure it continues to meet the ever-changing demands of detecting and clearing ...

MCLEAN, Va. , Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- QinetiQ North America, a global developer of innovative technology solutions for national defense, today announced that its Technology Solutions Group subsidiary ...

The modular advanced armed robotic system (MAARS) robot is designed to support troops in combat situations. Equipped with a 7.62-millimeter machine gun and four 40-millimeter grenade launchers in a ...

Qinetiq North America’s Foster-Miller subsidiary has introduced MAARS to its TALON and SWORDS range of military robots. MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) is modular in design and uses the ...