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The United States Army closed a five-year production contract worth $109 million with FLIR Systems to build and ship the Kobra heavy duty UGV for the Common Robotic System – Heavy program. The robot will be used for explosive ordnance disposal and heavy duty operations.
FLIR Systems was awarded a five-year production contract worth up to $109 million by the US Army's Common Robotic System-Heavy (CRS-H) programme to build over 350 Kobra unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for explosive ordnance disposal units.
FLIR Systems acquired a number of assets including patents related to Aria, aiming to merge ground and drone robots for military applications. The assets had links to iRobot Corp.