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Army

Army Taps Stratom To Develop Situational Awareness Kit For Light Robotic Combat Vehicle

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, August 15th, 2022

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Army Taps Stratom To Develop Situational Awareness Kit For Light Robotic Combat Vehicle

QinetiQ and Pratt Miller deliver first RCV-L vehicle to U.S. Army GVSC personnel at Selfridge Air National Guard Base on November 5, 2020. Photo: QinetiQ.

Autonomy and robotics firm Stratom has received a deal from the Army to develop a personnel safety and situational awareness system for the new Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light platform, the company said Monday. Stratom said its Perimeter Safety for Autonomous Vehicles (P-SAV) system is a standalone kit that can be integrated on robotic vehicles to provide 360-degree sensor coverage and machine learning capabilities for identifying large objects around the platform. “As robotic vehicles are increasingly utilized across applications where it may…

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