ASELSAN · military or security robot
KAPLAN EOD robot
A tracked bomb-disposal robot with a seven-axis arm, in service with the Turkish Police; the Kaplan family is also used by the Turkish military.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
KAPLAN EOD robot is on the market today.
Real-world use
Turkish Police; Kaplan family also used by the Turkish military
Timeline
- Released
- 2014
Maker
ASELSANCompany · founded 1975 · Ankara, TurkeyListed on Borsa Istanbul (ASELS); revenue about US$3.5 billion (2024)
How it stacks up
Against other military & security that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Too few military & security publish a joints to rank it. Bars show the 1 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention KAPLAN EOD robot gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Tracks · 7 joints
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. Bomb-disposal teams drive it and control its arm remotely.
- Actuators & motors
- Tracked platform built for stairs, rock piles, steep slopes, snow and mud
- Hands
- Seven-degree-of-freedom manipulator arm for inspecting and disposing of explosives
- Sensors & vision
- Surveillance cameras streaming high-resolution live video to the operator control unit, with recording
- AI & software
- Operator control unit with a 3D model of the robot's pose so it can be driven without line of sight
- Other details
- Suspicious objects can be examined from 500 m or more away
From the maker
KAPLAN EOD robot is the only machine from ASELSAN in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Where it is sold or used
- Turkey (ASELSAN)
- Customers and pilots
- Turkish Police; Kaplan family also used by the Turkish military
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Kaplan tech underpins Turkish UGV bid
Defense News reported ASELSAN based its Aslan entry for a Turkish medium UGV contest on Kaplan technology.
Defense News - ASELSAN shows Kaplan EOD robot at KADEX
ASELSAN presented the Kaplan bomb-disposal robot, already in Turkish Police service, at KADEX 2014 in Astana.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useKAPLAN EOD robotASELSAN |  T7 Multi-Mission Robotic SystemHarris Corporation (now L3Harris)Same job: bomb disposal · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots |  Centaur (MTRS Inc II)Endeavor Robotics / FLIR Systems (now Teledyne FLIR)Same job: bomb disposal · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2014-05-22 | 2017-09 | 2017 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | — | — |
| Weight | — | 322 kg | 72.6 kg |
| Joints | 7 | — | — |
| Speed | — | 7 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — |
Sources
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