QinetiQ North America · military or security robot
MAARS
Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System
The successor to SWORDS: a tracked robot with a turret that can carry weapons or swap them for a manipulator arm. Evaluated by the US Army and Marine Corps.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 167 kgHeavier than 29%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 11.3 km/hFaster than 42%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A prototype machine from QinetiQ North America.
Real-world use
US military EOD/LIC programme; tested at Fort Benning (October 2013) and shown to the Marine Corps (January 2015)
Maker
QinetiQ North AmericaCompany · Ashburn, Virginia, USA (parts made in Franklin, Massachusetts)How it stacks up
Against other military & security that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) is heavier than 29% of the 35 other military & security that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) is faster than 42% of the 31 other military & security that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) gets, from open data.
- 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
- Tracks
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. It operates only when receiving coded instructions from its operator, including commands for its weapons.
- Actuators & motors
- Tracked chassis larger than TALON; about 11 km/h.
- Hands
- Weapon turret can be swapped for a manipulator arm lifting about 54 kg.
- Sensors & vision
- Seven cameras with day and thermal modes; gunfire detection system.
- Battery & power
- 3 to 12 hours, with sleep mode up to a week.
- AI & software
- Remote control from about 800-1,000 m; armed versions always had a human controller.
- Other details
- About 167 kg fully loaded; loudspeaker, siren and laser dazzler for non-lethal use. Public sources list a machine gun and grenade launchers as armament.
From the maker
MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) is the only machine from QinetiQ North America 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
- Built
- Small numbers; first unit shipped in June 2008
- Sold or delivered
- Demonstration and evaluation units
- Where it is sold or used
- United States (QinetiQ North America)
- Customers and pilots
- US military EOD/LIC programme; tested at Fort Benning (October 2013) and shown to the Marine Corps (January 2015)
Sources
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