Carnegie Mellon NREC with United Defense Industries · military or security robot
Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle
A wheeled Marine Corps robot designed in 2005 for scouting and fire support. Six pre-production vehicles were built in 2007 but the Marines did not proceed to production.
- Price
- —System development contract worth over $26M; no unit price.
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 726 kgHeavier than 60%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A discontinued machine from Carnegie Mellon NREC with United Defense Industries (for the US Marine Corps).
Real-world use
US Marine Corps ($26m+ SDD contract, Feb 2005); units later passed to the Army and Cybernet Systems for autonomous resupply work
Timeline
- Released
- 2007
How it stacks up
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Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle is heavier than 60% of the 35 other military & security that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- 1,918 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Gladiator tactical unmanned ground vehicle)
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. Marines were to drive it and operate its payloads remotely from a portable control unit.
- Actuators & motors
- Concept models included a diesel tracked vehicle and two six-wheeled hybrid-electric vehicles; production design details not given in sources used.
- Sensors & vision
- Day, night and thermal imaging relayed to the operator.
- Other details
- Armoured against rounds up to 7.62 mm; modular payload interfaces (loudspeaker, siren/dazzler, searchlight). Sized so one fits in a Humvee.
From the maker
Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle is the only machine from Carnegie Mellon NREC with United Defense Industries (for the US Marine Corps) in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedSystem development contract worth over $26M; no unit price.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Six pre-production units in 2007
- Sold or delivered
- Marines chose not to enter production
- Where it is sold or used
- Carnegie Mellon NREC with United Defense Industries, Pittsburgh
- Customers and pilots
- US Marine Corps ($26m+ SDD contract, Feb 2005); units later passed to the Army and Cybernet Systems for autonomous resupply work
Sources
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