Vecna Robotics · legged machine
BEAR
Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot
A tall rescue robot with tracked legs and hydraulic arms meant to carry wounded soldiers out of danger. It was tested with soldiers in 2010.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 180 cmTaller than 55%
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- 1 hRuns longer than 0%
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Why it matters
A discontinued machine from Vecna Robotics.
Real-world use
Funded mainly by Vecna R&D, plus US Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA and a $1m congressional grant (2007); tested at Fort Benning in 2010
Maker
Vecna RoboticsCompany · Massachusetts, USAInternal R&D plus US Army, Navy, Air Force and DARPA funding (BEAR)
How it stacks up
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BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot) is taller than 55% of the 22 other legged & novel that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot) runs longer than 0% of the 6 other legged & novel that publish a battery. Bars show the 6 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: weight, speed, payload, joints, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Other movement
- How it runs
- Assisted. Soldiers controlled it remotely; it could stand and balance on its dual-track mobility system, while more advanced semi-autonomous behavior was under development.
- Actuators & motors
- Hydraulic upper body (3,000 psi) lifting about 500 lb; electrically driven tracked legs, later independent.
- Hands
- Strong hands able to hold an egg without breaking it; later touch and pressure sensors on the hands.
- Sensors & vision
- Infrared, night-vision and optical cameras, microphone; later chemical and biological agent sensors.
- Battery & power
- About one hour for the tracked legs (doubling planned).
- Materials & build
- Steel frame (replaced aluminium); fire-resistant treads and battery.
- AI & software
- Teleoperation, then higher-level commands; iGlove gesture control and a rifle-grip controller.
- Other details
- About six feet tall with a teddy-bear face; dynamic balance while carrying loads.
From the maker
BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot) is the only machine from Vecna Robotics 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
- Built
- Prototypes through nine development stages
- Sold or delivered
- not sold
- Where it is sold or used
- Vecna's Cambridge Research Laboratory, Massachusetts
- Customers and pilots
- Funded mainly by Vecna R&D, plus US Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA and a $1m congressional grant (2007); tested at Fort Benning in 2010
Sources
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