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tEODor
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Telerob (an AeroVironment company) · military or security robot

tEODor

A heavy tracked bomb-disposal robot with a manipulator arm, in German Army use since 2003.

Price
—Not published
Height
—Not published
Weight
360 kgHeavier than 49%
Payload
—Not published
Speed
3.0 km/hFaster than 3%
Battery
—Not published
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Why it matters

tEODor is on the market today.

Real-world use

German Army (reported), EOD teams; a tEODor EVO was used at Leipzig/Halle Airport to deal with a drone carrying an IED (AV, 2026)

Timeline

First shown
2003
Released
2003
In German Army service since 2003 (first showing earlier, not sourced)

Maker

Telerob (an AeroVironment company)Company · founded 1994 · Ostfildern (near Stuttgart), Germany

How it stacks up

Against other military & security that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. CrusherCarnegie Mellon University NREC (for DARPA) · 20066000 kg
  2. XM1219 Armed Robotic Vehicle (MULE family)Lockheed Martin and Boeing (US Army Future Combat Systems) · 20072300 kg
  3. Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground VehicleCarnegie Mellon NREC with United Defense Industries (for the US Marine Corps) · 2005726 kg
  4. tEODortelerob (now an AeroVironment subsidiary) · 2003360 kg
  5. MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System)QinetiQ North America · 2008167 kg
  6. ChaosAutonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI) · 200060 kg
  7. PackBotiRobot (later Endeavor Robotics, now Teledyne FLIR) · 200214.3 kg
  8. ThrowbotReconRobotics · 20120.5 kg

tEODor is heavier than 49% of the 35 other military & security that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Weight 360 kg 0.5 kg15000 kg #19 of 36 · heavier than 49%

Not published by the maker: height, payload, joints, battery, price.

Public attention

How much public attention tEODor 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
How it runs
Remote-controlled. Bomb-disposal operators drive it and control its arm and tools remotely by cable or radio.
Actuators & motors
Tracked heavy EOD vehicle (drive details not in sources used).
Hands
Manipulator arm for handling and moving suspect devices.
Sensors & vision
Cameras used to inspect devices from a distance.
AI & software
Remotely operated by bomb technicians.
Other details
Current version is sold as tEODor EVO by AeroVironment.

From the maker

tEODor is the only machine from telerob (now an AeroVironment subsidiary) in the atlas.

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
Sold or delivered
Sold to EOD, police and military users; Telerob reports customers in 45 countries (all products)
Where it is sold or used
Telerob, Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany (AeroVironment subsidiary since May 2021)
Customers and pilots
German Army (reported), EOD teams; a tEODor EVO was used at Leipzig/Halle Airport to deal with a drone carrying an IED (AV, 2026)

News

The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. tEODor EVO used on airport drone bomb

    Telerob's managing director wrote that a tEODor EVO let technicians inspect and handle an IED-carrying drone found at Leipzig/Halle Airport from a safe distance.

    AeroVironment
  2. AeroVironment completes Telerob purchase

    AeroVironment closed its all-cash acquisition of Telerob, maker of the telemax and tEODor EVO robots, for about $45.4 million.

    Robotics 24/7

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

Full comparison
MeasuretEODortEODortelerob (now an AeroVironment subsidiary)PackBotPackBotiRobot (later Endeavor Robotics, now Teledyne FLIR)Same job: bomb disposal · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilotsTALONTALONFoster-Miller (QinetiQ North America)Same job: bomb disposal · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots
First shown200320022000
StatusCommercialCommercialCommercial
Height———
Weight360 kg14.3 kg—
Joints———
Speed3 km/h9.3 km/h—
Payload———
Battery———
Price———

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

AeroVironment tEODor ICM open repository Military robots document (tEODor data) telerob.com tEODor: how it is operated Robotics 24/7 AeroVironment Completes Acquisition of Unmanned Ground Vehicle Provider Telerob

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