Photo credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anabel Del Valle
Designed by Ghost Robotics and Immersive Wisdom, these semi-autonomous robot dogs will be integrated onto a military installation and is one of many innovation-based initiatives to begin at Tyndall AFB. They can operate in -40° F to 131° F conditions and come equipped with 14 sensors to create 360° awareness. That’s not all, they have a crouch mode that lowers their center-of-gravity as well as a high-step mode that alters leg mobility.
Officially called Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicles (Q-UGVs), the robot dogs were delivered to Tyndall Air Force Base on March 22 for integration into the 325th Security Forces Squadron. It aims to revolutionize the way base security operates, while Tyndall AFB is expected to set the benchmark for the rest of the Defense Department when it comes to Q-UGV utilization.
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Tyndall (AFB) is a perfect test base as it was deemed ‘The Installation of the Future’. Across the base, every squadron has been pushing the envelope of how we do things and expanding our optics of what is possible. One huge attraction piece of the robot dogs is that it’s highly mobile and with the amount of construction we will face over the next few years, it helps us maintain and increase our security posture,” said Master Sgt. Krystoffer Miller, 325th SFS operations support superintendent.
