Military Ground Robots Market Market Assessment

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

Publication Date	March 2008
Publisher	Wintergreen Research
Product Type	Report
Pages	239
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	WIN00031

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Summary

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.

Content

Military Ground Robot Executive Summary
Military Ground Robot Executive Summary Es-1
Military Ground Robot Market Driving Forces Es-1
Robotics Industry Synergies Es-1
Military Robotics Market Driving Forces Es-2
Military Robot Market Shares Es-3
Military Ground Robot Market Description and Market Dynamics
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
Military Ground Robot Market Shares and Market Forecasts
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
Military Ground Robot Robot Product Description
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
Military Ground Robot Strategy, Technology, and Industry Specific Applications
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
Military Ground Robot Company Profiles
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
  - 5.24.5 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
Military Ground Robot Executive Summary
Military Ground Robot Market Description and Market Dynamics
List of Tables and Figures
- Table ES-1 ES-3 Military Robotics Market Driving Forces
- Table 1-4 Military Robot Types MILITARY GROUND ROBOT MARKET SHARES AND MARKET FORECASTS
- Table 2-1 Military Robotics Market Driving Forces
- Table 2-2 Military Robotics Enabling Technologies
- Table 2-3 Military Robots Development Challenges
- Figure ES-2 ES-4 Worldwide Military Ground Robot Market Shares, 2007
- Figure ES-3 ES-5 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
- 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"
- Table 2-13 Military Robot Regional Market Segments, 2007
- 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
- Table 3-7 Northrop Grumman Remotec F6A Vehicle Features
- Table 3-8 Northrop Grumman Vehicle Data / Communication Links
- Table 3-11 Northrop Grumman Mark V-A1The Remotec ANDROS Features
- Table 3-12 Northrop Grumman Vehicle Data / Communication Links
- Table 3-14 Northrop Grumman Mini-ANDROS II Features
- Table 3-15 Northrop Grumman Robot Vehicle Data / Communication Links
- Table 3-17 Northrop Grumman WolverineThe Remotec ANDROS Features
- Table 3-20 iRobot
- Table 3-21 iRobot Military Robot Functions
- Table 3-22 iRobot Military Robot Models
- 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
- 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 2-12 Military Ground Robot Regional Market Segments, 2007
- Figure 3-1 Northrop Grumman Remotec
- Figure 3-6 Northrop Grumman Remotec F6A Vehicle
- Figure 3-9 Northrop Grumman 6A Remotec Vehicles
- Figure 3-10 Northrop Grumman Mark V-A1 - Highly Versatile, Robust, All-Terrain Platform
- Figure 3-13 Northrop Grumman Mini-Andros II Defense Robot
- Figure 3-16 Northrop Grumman Heavy-Duty, All-Terrain Robot Wolverine Defense Robot
- 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
- Figure 3-23 Allen Vanguard BombTec Defender
- Figure 3-27 Allen Vanguard Digital Vanguard ROV
- 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
- Table 4-12 Evolution Robotics Applications
- Table 4-14 Military Robot Key Product Technology Factors
- Table 5-1 Evolution Robotics Technologies
- Table 5-6 iRobot Roomba 500 series Vacuum Cleaning Features:
- Figure 4-10 Evolution Robotics Technology Solutions
- Figure 4-11 Evolution Robotics Object Recognition
- Figure 4-13 Hitachi Modular Robot Configuration
- 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
- Figure 5-7 iRobot Growth Positioning
- Figure 5-8 iRobot Roomba Positioning
- Figure 5-9 iRobot Roomba Strategy
- Figure 5-10 Parallax Mission