Coastal engineers, emergency response teams and military planners may soon have a new best friend, thanks to continued research at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).
For several weeks, a quadruped robot was deployed along North Carolina beaches – at the ERDC Field Research Facility in Duck, North Carolina – to test its ability to navigate the unique coastline terrain, deploy advanced sensors and collect critical landscape data.
The Sand Hound project – a partnership between ERDC and the University of Delaware – has sought to test the commercially available technology, pushing it to the limits and writing the book on how best to deploy such technology for either civil works or military...
A collaboration between the New York National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory led to an aviation first and a new standard for ice landings that dramatically expands landing site options for military operations in cold regions.
