Endeavor Robotics / Teledyne FLIR · military or security robot
Centaur
MTRS Inc II
A medium tracked robot with a camera suite, stair-climbing ability and a 1.8 m arm, designed for the US military's Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II.
- Price
- —Army/Navy: $23.5M for 160+ units; Air Force: $23M for 180+ units; programme ceiling raised to $190M in 2021. No unit price.
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 72.6 kgHeavier than 17%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Centaur (MTRS Inc II) is on the market today.
Real-world use
About 500 ordered by 2020 and nearly 600 more in a 2021 batch across US services.
Timeline
- Released
- 2020
Maker
Endeavor Robotics / Teledyne FLIRCompany · founded 2016 (spun out of iRobot's defence unit) · Teledyne FLIR: Wilsonville, Oregon, USAAcquired by FLIR for about US$382M (2019); Teledyne bought FLIR for US$8B (2021)
How it stacks up
Against other military & security that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Centaur (MTRS Inc II) is heavier than 17% 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
How much public attention Centaur (MTRS Inc II) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
- 1 reported deployment
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Tracks
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. Soldiers drive it and work its arm remotely from a control unit; some arm motions are automated.
- Hands
- Manipulator arm
- Sensors & vision
- EO/IR camera suite; can carry CBRN sensors and other payloads
- Other details
- About 160 lb; climbs stairs; open architecture
From the maker
Centaur (MTRS Inc II) is the only machine from Endeavor Robotics / FLIR Systems (now Teledyne FLIR) in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedArmy/Navy: $23.5M for 160+ units; Air Force: $23M for 180+ units; programme ceiling raised to $190M in 2021. No unit price.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- About 500 ordered by mid-2020 under MTRS Inc II (multi-year programme ceiling $150m, later raised)
- Where it is sold or used
- United States
- Customers and pilots
- US Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps EOD teams
Where it works
1 reported deployment.
- Ordered
US Army and US Navy · Explosive ordnance disposal and CBRN teams · since 2020-06 · 160 units
The US Army and Navy ordered more than 160 Centaur robots for bomb-disposal and CBRN work. More than 160 robots for $23.5 million (MTRS Inc II) Army Technology
News
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- FLIR wins Army and Navy Centaur orders
FLIR received $23.5m in orders for more than 160 Centaur robots, making it the mid-size EOD robot for all four US services.
Army Technology
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. How we choose
| Measure | Centaur (MTRS Inc II)Endeavor Robotics / FLIR Systems (now Teledyne FLIR) |  T7 Multi-Mission Robotic SystemHarris Corporation (now L3Harris)Same job: bomb disposal · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots |  Kobra (CRS-H)FLIR Systems / Teledyne FLIR (derived from iRobot/Endeavor 710 line)Same job: bomb disposal · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2017 | 2017-09 | 2019-11 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | — | — |
| Weight | 72.6 kg | 322 kg | 226.8 kg |
| Joints | — | — | — |
| Speed | — | 7 km/h | 12.9 km/h |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | 10 h |
| Price | — | — | — |
Sources
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