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Military Ground Robots Mowing Market Strategy, Market Shares, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014

Published by: Wintergreen Research

Published: Jan. 1, 2008 - 239 Pages


Table of Contents


MILITARY GROUND ROBOT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Military Ground Robot Market Driving Forces

Robotics Industry Synergies

Military Robotics Market Driving Forces

Military Robot Market Shares

1. MILITARY / NASA MOBILE ROBOTS AND ROBOTIC EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS

1.1 Robots Used In Struggle To Defeat Explosive Devices

1.1.1 Remotely Controlled Armed Robots Deployed In Iraq

1.2 U.S. Military Uses Robots For Surge

1.3 India Plans To Develop Robot Army

1.4 Military Robots in India

1.4.1 South Korea's Planned Army Of Killbots

1.4.2 US Robotics Investment for Military

1.5 Unmanned Ground Robot Vehicles

1.6 Seizing the Robotics Opportunity

1.6.1 Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Systems

1.7 Public Aware That Robotics Have “Arrived”

1.8 Next Generation Robotics

1.9 Market Research Risk Mitigation

2. MILITARY GROUND ROBOT MARKET SHARES AND FORECASTS

2.1 Military Ground Robot Market Driving Forces

2.1.1 Robotics Industry Synergies

2.1.2 Military Robotics Market Driving Forces

2.1.3 Military Robotics Enabling Technology

2.2 Robots For Defense And Homeland Security

2.2.1 U.S. Army Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV)

2.2.2 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA Tactical Teams

2.2.3 Application Scope

2.3 Military Robot Market Shares

2.3.1 Northrop Grumman / Remotec

2.3.2 Northrop Grumman Remotec UK Wheelbarrow Robots

2.3.3 iRobot Military Robotics

2.3.4 iRobot Contract Research and Development Projects

2.3.5 iRobot Robots Perform Dull, Dirty Or Dangerous Missions

2.3.6 iRobot Wins $286 Million U.S. Army Contract

2.3.7 iRobot Quantitative Evidence

2.3.8 iRobot R&D and Partners

2.3.9 iRobot Strategy

2.3.10 QinetiQ / Foster-Miller

2.3.11 Allen-Vanguard

2.3.12 Allen-Vanguard Spares For Symphony Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) Program

2.3.13 Boston Dynamics

2.4 Military Ground Robot Market Forecasts

2.4.1 Remotely Controlled Armed Robots Deployed In Iraq

2.5 U.S. Military Robot for "Surge"

2.5.1 Robotic Rovers Spirit And Opportunity

2.6 Military Robot Regional Market Analysis

3. MILITARY GROUND ROBOT PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

3.1 Northrop Grumman Remotec

3.1.1 Northrop Grumman Remotec F6A Vehicle

3.1.2 Northrop Grumman 6A Remotec Vehicles

3.1.3 Northrop Grumman Mark V-A1

3.1.4 Northrop Grumman Mini-ANDROS II - Compact,

Capable, Two-Man-Portable Platform

3.1.5 Northrop Grumman Remotec UK Wheelbarrow Robots

3.2 QinetiQ

3.2.1 QinetiQ’s North America Subsidiary Foster-Miller / QinetiQ's MAARS Robot

3.2.2 QinetiQ’s / Foster-Miller TALON Military Robot

3.2.3 QinetiQ’s / Foster-Miller SWORDS Military Robot

3.3 Boston Dynamics

3.3.1 iRobot PackBot Government Products

3.3.2 iRobot PackBot Scout

3.3.3 iRobot PackBot Explorer

3.3.4 iRobot PackBot EOD

3.3.5 iRobot R-Gator: Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle

3.3.6 iRobot Role In The FCS program

3.3.7 iRobot Sentinel

3.4 Allen Vanguard

3.4.1 Allen Vanguard BombTec™ Defender ROV

3.4.2 Allen Vanguard Command Console

3.4.3 Allen Vanguard CBRN Hazard Area Prediction

3.4.4 Allen Vanguard Allen Vanguard Digital Vanguard™ ROV

3.4.5 Allen Vanguard ROV-Track CBRNE

3.4.6 Allen Vanguard UCS Trailer

4. GROUND ROBOT MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

4.1 Military Robot Key Technology

4.1.1 Visual Simultaneous Localization & Mapping

4.2 NASA Exploratory Robots

4.2.1 NASA Spirit Robot

4.2.2 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit

4.2.3 Sample NASA Sprit Sol-By-Sol Summary:

4.2.4 Opportunity Update

4.2.5 NASA Opportunity Sol-By-Sol Summary

4.2.6 NASA Opportunity Robot

4.3 Remote Controlled Robot Missions

4.3.1 Auto-Navigation System Takes Pictures Of The Nearby Terrain

4.4 Autonomous Modular Robotics Used in Space

4.5 Goodrich / Sensors Unlimited Infrared Imaging

Sensors On A Chip

4.6 Evolution Robotics Technology Solutions

4.6.1 Evolution Robotics Example Applications

4.7 Open Robotic Control Software

4.7.1 PC-Bots

4.8 Advanced Robot Technology: Navigation, Mobility, And Manipulation

4.8.1 Robot Intelligence Systems

4.8.2 Real-World, Dynamic Sensing

4.9 User-Friendly Interfaces

4.9.1 Tightly-Integrated, Electromechanical Robot Design

4.10 Field Based Robotics Iterative Development

4.10.1 Next-Generation Products Leverage Model

4.10.2 Modular Robot Structure And Control

4.10.3 Lattice Architectures

4.10.4 Chain / Tree Architectures

4.10.5 Deterministic Reconfiguration

4.10.6 Stochastic Reconfiguration

4.10.7 Modular Robotic Systems

4.11 Telepario

4.12 Self-Reproducing Machines

4.12.1 M-TRAN Modular Transformer

4.13 Attitude Control In Space By Control Moment Gyros

4.14 Robotics Government Regulations

4.15 Segway Mobile Robotic Technology

4.15.1 Segway Brains And The Brawn

4.16 Hitachi Configuration Of Robots Using The SuperH Family

4.16.1 Hitachi Concept of MMU And Logic Space

5. MILITARY ROBOT COMPANY PROFILES

5.1 Selected Military \ Aerospace Vendors With Robotics Programs

5.2 Allen-Vanguard

5.2.1 Allen-Vanguard Positioning

5.2.2 Vanguard™ Mk II Robot

5.2.3 Allen-Vanguard / Giuliani Partners, / General Dynamics, / Lockheed Martin Strategic Relationships

5.2.4 Allen-Vanguard Fourth Quarter Revenue 2007

5.2.5 Allen-Vanguard's Electronic Systems

5.2.6 Allen-Vanguard Technology Factors In Markets

5.2.7 Allen-Vanguard Personal Protection Systems ("PPS")

5.2.8 Allen-Vanguard Counter-IED Services

5.2.9 Allen-Vanguard Med-Eng integration

5.2.10 Allen-Vanguard Partnerships, Alliances, Teaming Agreements

5.2.11 Allen-Vanguard Revenue For Q4 and Fiscal 2007

5.3 Anybots

5.4 Boeing

5.4.1 Boeing and iRobot

5.5 Boston Dynamics

5.6 ComCam

5.7 Draganfly Innovations

5.8 EH Publishing / Robotics Trends

5.8.1 EH Publishing

5.9 Evolution Robotics

5.9.1 Evolution Robotics Technologies

5.9.2 Evolution Robotics NorthStar Product

5.9.3 Evolution Robotics Technology Solutions

5.10 Electromechanica

5.11 Fischertechnik

5.12 Fujitsu

5.13 Hitachi

5.14 Honda

5.15 QinetiQ North America / FosterMiller / Automatika /Applied Perception

5.15.1 Foster-Miller

5.15.2 Automatika and Applied Perception

5.16 Gostai SAS

5.17 Idealab / Evolution Robotics

5.18 Innova Holdings / CoroWare

5.18.1 Innova Robotics & Automation / CoroWare

5.18.2 Innova Robotics and Automation

5.18.3 Innova Robotics and Automation Companies

5.18.4 Innova Robotics and Automation Alliances

5.19 Innovation First Robotics

5.19.1 Innovation First (RackSolutions) Technical Overview & Capabilities

5.19.2 Innovation First / VexRobotics

5.19.3 VexRobotics

5.19.4 Innovation First

5.19.5 Innovation First / IFIrobotics

5.19.6 Revell-Monogram LLC

5.19.7 VexRobotics

5.20 IntelliVision

5.21 iRobot

5.21.1 iRobot Strategy

5.21.2 iRobot Role In The FCS program

5.21.3 iRobot Strategic Alliances

5.21.4 iRobot and Deere & Company

5.21.5 iRobot and Clorox Company

5.21.6 iRobot Sales and Distribution Channels

5.21.7 iRobot Revenue

5.21.8 iRobot

5.21.9 iRobot Third Quarter 2007 Revenue

5.21.10 iRobot Revenue

5.21.11 iRobot Revenue For The Second Fiscal

Quarter Ended June 30, 2007

5.21.12 iRobot Distribution

5.21.13 iRobot $8.8 Million U.S. Military Order for PackBot Robots

5.21.14 iRobot Gutter Cleaner

5.21.15 iRobot Communication Robot

5.21.16 iRobot ConnectR Pilot Program

5.21.17 iRobot NAVSEA $19 Million for Bomb-Disposal Robots

5.21.18 iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robots

5.21.19 iRobot Customer Service and Support

5.21.20 iRobot Marketing and Brand

5.22 LG Electronics

5.23 Lockheed Martin

5.24 Microsoft

5.24.1 Microsoft Robotics Studio Provides for Robotics Innovation

5.24.2 Key Features Of Microsoft Robotics Studio Environment

5.24.3 Microsoft Industry Partners

5.24.4 Microsoft Sponsors Carnegie Mellon Center for

Innovative Robotics 5-81

5.24.5 Microsoft Robotics Studio / Via Platform

5.24.6 Microsoft Robotics Group

5.25 NeuroSky

5.26 Northrop Grumman

5.26.1 Northrop Grumman Information & Services

5.26.2 Northrop Grumman Electronics

5.26.3 Northrop Grumman Aerospace / TRW

5.26.4 Northrop Grumman Ships

5.26.5 Northrop Grumman Acquisitions

5.27 Object Management Group OMG

5.27.1 Object Management Group Computer Industry Consortium

5.27.2 Object Management Group Technology Transfer Program

5.28 OLogic

5.29 Optimal Group / WowWee

5.29.1 Optimal Group

5.29.2 Optimal Group Variety Of Businesses

5.30 Parallax

5.31 QinetiQ

5.32 Raytheon

5.32.1 Raytheon NASA MicroLight Networked Communications Navigation System

5.33 Robotics Trends, Inc.

5.33.1 RoboDevelopment Conference Overview

5.34 Rogue Robotics

5.35 Samsung

5.36 Sensory

5.37 SJAutomation

5.38 SRI International

5.39 SuperDroid Robots Inc.

5.40 Systronix

5.41 Toyota

5.42 Trossen Robotics

5.43 Ugobe

5.44 VIA Technologies

5.44.1 Via Market Challenge

5.44.2 Via Enabling New Markets

5.44.3 Via Robotics

5.44.4 Via PC-Bots

List of Tables and Figures

Table ES-1

Military Robotics Market Driving Forces

Figure ES-2

Worldwide Military Ground Robot Market Shares, 2007

Figure ES-3

Worldwide Mid Range Military Robots To Remotely Detect

and Defuse Bombs Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014

Figure 1-1

U.S. Military Robots Use During Surge

Figure 1-2

Indian Robotic Army

Figure 1-3

Robot Carrying Rifle

Table 1-4

Military Robot Types

Table 2-1

Military Robotics Market Driving Forces

Table 2-2

Military Robotics Enabling Technologies

Table 2-3

Military Robots Development Challenges

Figure 2-4

Worldwide Military Ground Robot Market Shares, 2007

Figure 2-5

Worldwide Military Ground Robot Market Shares, 2007

Figure 2-6

Worldwide Mid Range Military Robot Market Forecasts,

Units Shipped, 2008-2014

Figure 2-7

Worldwide Mid Range Military Robots To Remotely

Detect and Defuse Bombs Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014

Figure 2-8

Worldwide Military Ground Robot Market Forecasts,

Units Shipped, 2008-2014

Figure 2-9

Worldwide High End Military Robots To Remotely Detect

and Defuse Bombs Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014

Figure 2-10

Worldwide Military Ground Robot Market Forecasts,

Units Shipped, 2008-2014

Figure 2-11

U.S. Military Robot for "Surge"

Figure 2-12

Military Ground Robot Regional Market Segments, 2007

Table 2-13

Military Robot Regional Market Segments, 2007

Figure 3-1

Northrop Grumman Remotec

Table 3-2

Northrop Grumman ANDROS Robot Features

Table 3-3

Northrop Grumman Andros Robot Functions

Table 3-4

Northrop Grumman Remotec Features

Table 3-5

Northrop Grumman Remotec Vehicle Data

Communication Link Features

Figure 3-6

Northrop Grumman Remotec F6A Vehicle

Table 3-7

Northrop Grumman Remotec F6A Vehicle Features

Table 3-8

Northrop Grumman Vehicle Data / Communication Links

Figure 3-9

Northrop Grumman 6A Remotec Vehicles

Figure 3-10

Northrop Grumman Mark V-A1 - Highly Versatile, Robust,

All-Terrain Platform

Table 3-11

Northrop Grumman Mark V-A1The Remotec ANDROS Features

Table 3-12

Northrop Grumman Vehicle Data / Communication Links

Figure 3-13

Northrop Grumman Mini-Andros II Defense Robot

Table 3-14

Northrop Grumman Mini-ANDROS II Features

Table 3-15

Northrop Grumman Robot Vehicle Data / Communication Links

Figure 3-16

Northrop Grumman Heavy-Duty, All-Terrain Robot

Wolverine Defense Robot

Table 3-17

Northrop Grumman WolverineThe Remotec ANDROS Features

Figure 3-18

Foster Miller Transformer-Like Modular Design

Robotic Platform MAARS Chassis Uni-Body Frame

Figure 3-19

QinetiQ’s / Foster-Miller SWORDS Military Robot

Table 3-20

iRobot

Table 3-21

iRobot Military Robot Functions

Table 3-22

iRobot Military Robot Models

Figure 3-23

Allen Vanguard BombTec™ Defender

Table 3-24

Allen Vanguard Key Features of BombTec Defender

Table 3-25

Allen Vanguard Key Features of BombTec Technical Data

Table 3-26

Allen Vanguard Key Features Of The Command Console

Figure 3-27

Allen Vanguard Digital Vanguard™ ROV

Table 3-28

Allen Vanguard ROV Key Features

Table 3-29

Allen Vanguard Key Features Of The Command Console

Table 4-1

Military Robot Key Technology

Table 4-2

Robot Communications Key Technology

Table 4-3

Military Robot Key Navigation Technologies

Table 4-4

Human-Robot Interaction

Table 4-5

Visual Simultaneous Localization & Mapping Functions

Relevant to Robotics

Figure 4-6

Sprit Robot On Mars.

Figure 4-7

Spirit's Winter Panorama

Figure 4-8

Opportunity Maneuvers Around Steeper Slopes

in "Victoria Crater"

Table 4-9

Remote Controlled Robot Missions Technologies of

Broad Benefit

Figure 4-10

Evolution Robotics Technology Solutions

Figure 4-11

Evolution Robotics Object Recognition

Table 4-12

Evolution Robotics Applications

Figure 4-13

Hitachi Modular Robot Configuration

Table 4-14

Military Robot Key Product Technology Factors

Table 5-1

Evolution Robotics Technologies

Figure 5-2

Evolution Robotics Technology Solutions

Figure 5-3

Evolution Robotics Strategic Alliance with Sony

Figure 5-4

Evolution Robotics Product Diversity

Figure 5-5

Evolution Robotics Investment Strategy

Table 5-6

iRobot Roomba 500 series Vacuum Cleaning Features:

Figure 5-7

iRobot Growth Positioning

Figure 5-8

iRobot Roomba Positioning

Figure 5-9

iRobot Roomba Strategy

Figure 5-10

Parallax Mission

Abstract

Robots are automating military ground systems, permitting vital protection of soldiers and people in the field, creating the possibility of reduced fatalities. Mobile robotics operate independently of the operator.

What is good for a robotic unmanned ground vehicle is also good for a robotic vacuum and lawn mower. Multiple technological, cultural, political and market forces share a quantum singularity that has brought mobile robotics to the point where robots are useful to every arm of the military services. This is a phenomenon that will have a major impact on the way we run the military and police societies.

Use of remote-control toys in Iraq started as improvised robots to check out possible roadside bombs. There has since been a flurry of activity on the robotic explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) front. Deliveries of smaller and cheaper MARCBOTs and BomBots are underway.

The emergence of a market for intelligent, mobile robots for use in homes presents many opportunities. Units used in homes are also useful in workplaces and public spaces, airports, under the sea, and on the battlefield creating synergies creating economies of scale that make systems more useful and inexpensive in all the various industry segments impacted. The trio handle M249s, are remotely controlled by a soldier through a terminal. The whereabouts and missions remain classified. Armed machines were reportedly designed to handle "high risk" combat scenarios if necessary. There is no record of a SWORD firing its weapon, but considering that each of these devices can potentially remove a human from harm. The full blown platoons are being unleashed when finances allow.

Similar technology is used to actuate the disparate robot types. Core robotics research and advances in robotic technology can be applied across a variety of robotic form factors and robotic functionality. Advances feed on and off of each other. With each new round of innovation, a type of technological cross pollination occurs that improves existing robotic platforms and opens up other avenues where intelligent mobile robots can be employed, effectively creating new markets.

Roboticists are more advanced in their training and in the tools available to create units. Military robots have evolved from units used in the field to manage different situations that arise. Robots save lives.

Defense and homeland security systems have an emphasis on causality reduction during combat. This has resulted in investment in robotics technology that is useful. Robotic research is on the fast track for government spending. Congress passed a law making it an Army goal that by 2015, one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles are unmanned. The US Navy and Marines have similar initiatives underway.

Military ground robot market forecast analysis indicates that vendor strategy is to pursue developing new applications that leverage leading edge technology. Robot solutions are achieved by leveraging the ability to innovate, to bring products to market quickly. Military purchasing authorities seek to reduce costs through design and outsourcing. Vendor capabilities depend on the ability to commercialize the results of research in order to fund further research. Government funded research is evolving some more ground robot capability.

Markets at $145 million in 2007 are anticipated to reach $6.9 billion by 2014.

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