"This award is indicative, in general, of the military's growing
commitment to unmanned ground vehicles and, specifically, of the Army's
initial interest in the Dragon Runner based on the favorable results that the
Marines have had with it to date," commented Bill Thomasmeyer, President of
the NCDR and Executive Vice-President of The Technology Collaborative ."
The Dragon Runner is a 16-pound, highly compact, ultra-durable unmanned
vehicle that can be thrown and/or remotely guided into buildings or other
urban environments. The human arm, for example, can position and orient
the hand while retaining freedom of motion in the elbow.

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S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the Dragon
Runner was designed to meet the Marines' need for a man -portable, rapidly
deployable robot that can operate in rugged environments and a variety of
uncertain settings. For more information, please visit
http://www.

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, a developer
of high value added novel robotic and automation systems, to manufacture and
deliver the evaluation Dragon Runner units.

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The units are primarily intended
to be evaluated and assessed for potential use by the U. "By acting as their eyes and ears in blind situations such
as around corners and inside buildings, the Dragon Runner enables U.
"Actin is more than just an easy-to-implement robotic controller," said
James Bacon, Principal Engineer with Energid Technologies, "it is a collection
of the many software tools needed to build, simulate, and demonstrate a
complete system.

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"We are confident that the Army will recognize the
same value in the Dragon Runner that the Marines have in terms of its ability
to reduce the number of military and civilian casualties that result from
urban warfare. Customers include commercial
robotics manufacturers, branches of the U.energid.

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The NCDR has in turn subcontracted with Automatika, Inc. Once deployed, soldiers easily and rapidly maneuver the
robot via an intuitive , handheld controller to view the situation and quickly
assess the potential for harm to nearby soldiers . "The Dragon Runner is a
truly 'backpackable,' 'throwable' robot, developed precisely to operate in
volatile urban environments," explained Dr. Areas of expertise include military and civil defense applications,
Oil and Gas applications, remote and hazardous applications, industrial
robotics and automation, food processing, and engineering consulting services.techcollaborative. In
the past , this has prevented the application of many valuable mechanical
designs.

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Army.
Automatika has licensed the Carnegie Mellon technology incorporated into
Dragon Runner, positioning the company to manufacture the robot on a larger
scale once the military gains experience with the initially deployed units and
determines the need for additional systems.
Automatika, Inc.

Add per DFARS 252.

For more information, visit http://www. Actin can
also be used to control mechanisms with self-connecting loops.

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Based on software
developed for NASA, Actin provides coordinated control for fixed or mobile
robots with up to 100 independent moving parts. A
robot modeled on the human torso, for example, could have more than 50 degrees
of freedom and branch from the torso into two arms and ten fingers.com.

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National Center for Defense Robotics Awarded Project to Produce 'Dragon Runner' Robots for Army Evaluation

S. Robotics Company Releases Advanced Software for Control and Simulation

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. "Where the
hands and tools should be, not on how they get there.

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(Logo: http://www.S.

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The sites in this category are a showcase of their hard work.

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"
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and Automatika worked
jointly to develop Dragon Runner, contributing various components based on
each organization's expertise . The NCDR has
established the Agile Robotics Alliance, a national consortium of small
companies , universities, government agencies, and defense contractors to
undertake these projects.

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was founded in 1995 and has offices and prototyping
facilities in Pittsburgh, PA. N00164-05-D-
6647.
"With Actin, roboticists are free to focus on what the robot does," said
James English, Chief Technical Officer for Energid Technologies.
In addition, Actin includes the ability to dynamically simulate robots,
visually render the robots, express control systems using the Extensible
Markup Language (XML), create XML schemas describing the control-system
language, communicate control systems over a network, incorporate machine
vision, and implement force control.

Whether they are built from a kit or from scratch, there are many enthusiasts creating their own mechanical life-forms.

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- Pittsburgh -based Automatika, Inc.S. "It's
also a development that could potentially lead to greater military demand for
the Dragon Runner and to increased jobs in southwestern Pennsylvania should
production ramp in order to meet such an increase in demand. It works with fixed-base manipulators, as would be typical for factory
automation, and with mobile manipulators, as would be appropriate for home
entertainment .

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soldiers to immediately assess the level of danger and make better decisions,"
commented Colonel Terry Griffin, project manager of the RS/JPO. Automatika developed the electronics or
"brains" of the robot as well as the impact-resistant "tough" outer shell or
body of the robot; Carnegie Mellon developed the drive train, user interface,
backpack and software and also integrated all components of the system. Automatika provides consulting services and
feasibility assessments, and the invention , design, system prototyping, and
product manufacturing of high value added novel robotic and automation
systems.
The Actin toolkit provides libraries for the Windows platform that
robotics developers can use to quickly create complex, intelligent control
systems.

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Automatika also plans to make the
system available for civilian defense applications such as the Federal Bureau
of Investigations; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; SWAT;
and Police and Fire departments.

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Without Actin, a roboticist would need to first solve complex nonlinear
differential equations and implement the solution for real-time operation. It has regional presence in New York, New York; Dallas, Texas;
and Chicago, Illinois.

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to deliver two prototypes

- Long-term demand could generate jobs in southwestern PA

PITTSBURGH, The National Center for Defense
Robotics (NCDR), an initiative of The Technology Collaborative, today
announced that it was awarded a task order under its U."

About Energid Technologies
Energid Technologies is an engineering firm focused on solving challenging
problems in robotics and machine vision.

With the popularity of fighting robot shows and new robotic toys appearing every day, it seems that everyone wants their own robot.

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S., Energid Technologies
Corporation today released its Actin(TM) toolkit, innovative software for
controlling and simulating complex robotic mechanisms.

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com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CLW003ALOGO )
Initially developed in 2004 by Carnegie Mellon University and Automatika
under contract to the U. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in
this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views
of the United States Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center. Actin takes
advantage of this kinematic redundancy to produce intelligent robotic motion,
including collision avoidance, joint limit avoidance, minimum motion, and
strength optimization . Actin works with almost any joint type or hand type and with a
virtually unlimited number of degrees of freedom and branching connections.

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About The National Center for Defense Robotics
The National Center for Defense Robotics, an initiative of The Technology
Collaborative, procures Federal funding for technology development projects
intended to meet unmet government needs by transitioning agile robotics
technology for current and planned unmanned military systems.

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Hagen Schempf, Chairman and Chief
Scientist of Automatika.

About Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in
1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant
to industrial and societal tasks. Seeking to combine the practical and the
theoretical, the Robotics Institute has diversified its efforts and approaches
to robotics science while retaining its original goal of realizing the
potential of the robotics field. The developer specifies the robot kinematics and desired behavior,
and Actin produces algorithms for setting joint positions and rates to achieve
specified hand motion."
For mechanisms with many moving parts, tasks can be accomplished in an
unlimited number of ways . Department of Defense, and
multiple NASA centers.

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235-7010:
This release is based upon work supported by the United States Navy, Naval
Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Indiana, under Prime Contract No.
Through a configurable object-oriented design, Actin applies to many robot
types.

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newscom .

Energid Technologies Releases Version 1.0 of Its Actin(TM) Robotics Toolkit

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Government Prime
Contract #N00164-05-D-6647 with the United States Navy at the Naval Surface
Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to produce two Dragon Runner robots for
delivery to the Robotic Systems Joint Program Office (RS /JPO) in Huntsville,
Alabama.

About Automatika, Inc.org

Founded in 2001, its headquarters are in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

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