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Roboteam Developing Flying Unmanned Ground Vehicle

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

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Roboteam Developing Flying Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Roboteam is developing Rooster, a flying unmanned ground vehicle. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Roboteam, an American-Israeli firm that makes small unmanned ground vehicles for the U.S. Department of Defense and other customers, is developing several new products, including a UGV that can fly short distances to get around obstacles.Like the male chicken it is named after, Rooster can become airborne briefly through a motion that is more like jumping than full-fledged flying, said Shahar Abuhazira, Roboteam’s U.S.-based chief executive officer. Rooster consists of a six-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle mounted atop…

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