DRDO R&DE with Tata Motors, Theta Controls, BEL and Dynalog · military or security robot
Daksh
An Indian remote-controlled bomb-disposal robot that finds, handles and destroys hazardous objects; it also carries a water-jet disruptor and a door-breaching shotgun.
- Price
- —About ₹80 lakh per unit plus ₹25 lakh for the carrier vehicle (Bangalore Mirror, 2009); USD not converted.
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Daksh is on the market today.
Real-world use
Indian Army ordered 20 units in limited series production; also used by police bomb squads.
Public attention
How much public attention Daksh gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
- 1 reported deployment
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. Operators drive it and work its arm and disruptor remotely by cable or radio.
- Actuators & motors
- Battery-electric wheeled vehicle; climbs stairs and 40-degree slopes, crosses narrow corridors and can tow vehicles.
- Hands
- Robotic arm lifting about 20 kg with 2.5 m reach (4 m with extension).
- Sensors & vision
- Portable X-ray device, two cameras with 22x zoom, laser pointer; motorised pan-tilt platform.
- Battery & power
- About 3 hours of continuous operation.
- AI & software
- Remote control from a master control station: fibre-optic (100 m) or wireless (500 m line of sight).
- Other details
- Water-jet disruptor to defuse bombs; shotgun to open locked doors. About 90% indigenous components. Variants: Daksh Mini and Daksh Scout.
From the maker
Daksh is the only machine from DRDO R&DE (Engineers) with Tata Motors, Theta Controls, BEL and Dynalog in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedAbout ₹80 lakh per unit plus ₹25 lakh for the carrier vehicle (Bangalore Mirror, 2009); USD not converted.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Limited series production order of 20 for the Army; first five delivered 19 December 2011
- Sold or delivered
- About ₹80 lakh per unit plus ₹25 lakh for its carrier vehicle (reported)
- Where it is sold or used
- India; production transferred to Dynalog India, Theta Controls and Bharat Electronics
- Customers and pilots
- Indian Army bomb-disposal units; also police and paramilitary BDUs
Where it works
1 reported deployment.
- Deployed
Indian Army · Corps of Engineers bomb disposal units · since 2011-12 · 20 units
The Indian Army ordered 20 Daksh bomb-disposal robots and took the first six in December 2011. Limited series order of 20; first five delivered 19 December 2011 Army Technology
Sources
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