Ghost Robotics’ Imaginative and prescient 60 quadruped robotic is already fairly a flexible beast, able to strolling, working and even carrying a gun. Now, because of a third-party attachment, it could additionally “swim” via the water.
In its base kind, the 51-kg (112-lb) Imaginative and prescient 60 is ready to traverse uneven terrain, dash at a prime velocity of three meters per second (9.8 ft/s), carry a payload weighing as much as 10 kg (22 lb), and function for 3 hours per cost of its lithium battery pack.
And whereas it is already IP67 waterproof – which means it may be submerged to 1 m (3.3 ft) for half-hour with out leaking – it had beforehand solely been capable of wade via the water. That is is now not the case, nonetheless, because of Onyx Industries’ Nautical Autonomous Unmanned Tail (NAUT) module.
Just lately unveiled on the 2022 Particular Operations Forces Business Convention in Tampa, Florida, the NAUT was designed particularly for the Imaginative and prescient 60.
Ghost Robotics
Connected to rear finish of the floating robotic, the aluminum-bodied jet-drive machine delivers a prime velocity of three knots (3.5 mph or 5.6 km/h). The NAUT operates both autonomously or by distant management, steering the Imaginative and prescient 60 by way of a thrust vectoring system – the robotic retains its legs tucked in to enhance hydrodynamics because it travels via the water.
Energy is supplied both by the robotic’s battery, or by the NAUT’s personal – within the latter state of affairs, it has a claimed runtime of over half-hour. The module itself weighs 2 lb (0.9 kg), with the battery including one other 3 lb (1.4 kg). It may be rapidly indifferent when vital, and just like the Imaginative and prescient 60, it is IP67 waterproof.
An Onxy consultant tells us that it is out there now, by way of the corporate web site. The NAUT module could be seen in use, within the following video tweeted by Ghost Robotics.
Sources: Onyx Industries, Ghost Robotics by way of The Robotic Report
