CBRNe World Capability Profile: Foster-Miller

TALON® Family of Robots

TALON® robots are powerful, durable, lightweight tracked vehicles that can be configured for a variety of missions including explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), hazmat detection and assessment, bomb detection and suspicious package evaluation, reconnaissance, communications, and perimeter security. They have all-weather, day/night capabilities and can negotiate almost any terrain.

TALON robots have been in continuous, active military service since 2000 when they were successfully used in Bosnia for the safe movement and disposal of live grenades. They were the only American-made robots successfully used at Ground Zero in search and recovery efforts after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the only robots to last through the entire mission without requiring a major repair. They withstood 48 straight days of decontamination twice a day.

The TALON Hazmat robot uses JAUS (Joint Architecture Unmanned Systems) software to make it possible to “plug and play” up to seven detection instruments for WMD, radiation, gas, explosives and temperature mounted on a quick-release tray. TALON robots can also be configured to support a variety of commercially available x-ray inspection systems, giving the user the ability to drive the robot down range and have it remotely x-ray a suspicious package or suitcase to determine the contents.

Any of the robot models can also be equipped with a specially designed trailer and hitch to enable the robot to haul payloads such as perimeter sensors, sandbags, pigs, chemicals, contaminated and uncontaminated tools, detergents or bomb neutralization charges.

For further information on the TALON family of robots, please visit www.talonrobots.com.