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Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (UGCV) (Spinner)

If the Marines' Gladiator robot was not enough for you, try the Spinner robot:


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Spinner is a robotic chassis. From the article:

The UGCV team designed an innovative unmanned vehicle, "Spinner", that couples extreme terrainability with fuel efficiency, survivability and weapons payload flexibility to deliver the long-range capability required by UGCV missions. Spinner is a highly durable, invertible, 6WD vehicle that responds to the need of a UGCV to surmount challenging terrain obstacles, be easily teleoperated, and withstand an occasional moderate crash and rapidly recover. Spinner exploits the uncrewed aspect by enabling inversion and maintaining a low profile. In addition to rollover crash survivability, the hull, suspension and wheels have been designed for extreme frontal impacts from striking a tree, rock or unseen ditch at speed.

The article suggests missions as long as 14 days (without refueling) for Spinner.

Imagine mounting all of Gladiator's weaponry and much more on this huge chassis and then turning it loose on a battlefield or a city. See this post for details.