The US Army has announced that TRACLabs and Texas A&M University will be awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award worth $150,000. The award is to develop an autonomous robot that can assist in the medical treatment and evacuation of injured soldiers from the battlefield. TRACLabs will apply its computer vision, intelligent control and human-robot interaction expertise gained from NASA’s Robonaut project. Texas A&M Raytheon Profession of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. Robin Murphy will apply her experience in search and rescue robotics. The resulting dual-manipulator, mobile robot will be able to apply simple treatments to injured soldiers and also evacuate injured soldiers from the battlefield.
