Robot Manufacturers

[bmusser]

You can check out US Army TACOM. They do a ton of research and development on mobile robotics including autonomous vehicles. The main site for this is in Warren, MI. You can read more here:

http://www.tacom.army.mil/main/index.html

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by bmusser

You can check out US Army TACOM. They do a ton of research and development on mobile robotics including autonomous vehicles. The main site for this is in Warren, MI. You can read more here:

http://www.tacom.army.mil/main/index.html

Actually, it's TARDEC (Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center) that does all the RD&E. We're part of RDECOM, located at the same installation as TACOM. TACOM is one of our customers.

Here's tech. specific info:
http://tardec.army.mil/armytechobj.html

Our intern program is available Juniors and above.

A good place look for info on a career here is:
http://acpol.army.mil/employment/

If you are into RD&E part as much or more than the M part, then this is the place to be. We do some manufacturing alright, but not on a mass production basis, mostly one-of or a battalion-of special packages.

[Alex Cormier]

thanks everyone for the information. i will take it all into consideration.

[Ben Piecuch]

You could also consider most of the private defense companies to have some sort of "robotics" division. Though, they would probably cringe at the term "robots" for their fully autonomous vehicles.

- High Altitude Airships (HAA's)
- Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV's)
- Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAV's)

Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, etc... are the key contractors for this type of work.

BEN