MAARS ground robot – The new addition in arms of U.S. military

The giant QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group brought MAARS ground robot, which will specially use as an arms. June 6, 2008 they have delivered the first Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System (MAARS) ground robots to the US military. And it must be increase the power of the US military.

The MAARS ground robot is a well controlled remotely robot. There are also some robots which are recently used in different military groups. But in this addition of robot there are new accessories and attachments with it. MAARS can work at distances of 1km from the operator, which is most needed thing for a military operator. Its design is so well that it can handle itself in the stairs and it can also use wheels for faster movement. Others, for the hiding purpose MAARS ground robot can increase speed with reduce noise. MAARS is a light weight robot that than this type of older models robot, that can why it is able to move faster. Among its lot of feature manipulator arms, multiple types of weapons are really marked. Moreover, a wide range of sensor packages with seven high quality cameras has in it, which gives it multi-modal or multi response capabilities. Through to heavily power lethal weapons it can make a hard attack on the enemy in the battle field.

From the start of its making proposal, U.S. government pays more attention and full support of its creation. Dr William Ribich, President of the QinetiQ North American Technology Solutions Group said that, “The US government has been working with us over the last 18 months to develop and provide an innovative and evolutionary approach to combat situations that address the battlefield of the future”.

It is now in testing period. But in a near time, MAARS will add into the battlefield to show its effectiveness.