Government labUnited StatesSince 1923
US Naval Research Laboratory
The US Navy's corporate research laboratory, now under the Office of Naval Research. Its Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (set up 1981) used the Octavia humanoid to study human-robot teamwork, including firefighting.
- Robot models in the atlas
- 11 humanoid
- First robot
- 2009One year so far
- Headquarters
- WashingtonD.C., United States
- Is it still sold?No longer soldEvery robot is retired or discontinued
- What is new?2012-10Navy trains Octavia to fight fires with people
Robots
1 robot model shown in public in 2009. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
Humanoids 1 humanoid
What is new
The latest stories about US Naval Research Laboratory's robots, newest first.
- Navy trains Octavia to fight fires with people IEEE Spectrum · Octavia
The company
What it says about itself and what the sources record.
- Founded
- 1923
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Focus
- human-robot interaction, cognitive architectures, autonomy
- Funding
- Government lab; about $1.1 billion a year, recovered from sponsor-funded projects (Navy Working Capital Fund).
- Partners
- US Navy and Marine Corps
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