Northrop Grumman Remotec

A World Class Supplier of Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Northrop Grumman in the UK as Remotec UK Limited is the expert supplier of unmanned ground vehicles with an established record of more than 30-years and over 2,000 unmanned ground vehicle systems in operation around the world. 

Wheelbarrow Heritage

Today, at our facility in Coventry, we have created a centre of expertise for the systems design, integration and assembly of some of the most trusted unmanned ground vehicles. Our heritage has been built on providing the most capable and recognisable remote controlled bomb disposal platform the ‘Wheelbarrow’ to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)

The capability of the Wheelbarrow platform and its unmatched performance has directly led to its international success and it is still in active service world-wide as the platform of dependable choice by the most demanding and dedicated EOD/Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (CIED) teams.

Recently, we launched the Wheelbarrow Mk9 as the latest platform with its combined strengths of speed, climbing, lift and payload capacity. This has been enhanced to improve the ease of operator use with digital command links, intuitive touch-screen controls and sensors for improved situational awareness.

The COBRA EOD/IED Disposal System

It is the uniqueness of knowledge and experience gained that now allows us to deliver the next generation of EOD/IED disposal capability. This system has been created to improve IED defeat and save lives.

The COBRA system offers the latest technology in a modular design, enabling the user to deal with the full range of EOD/IED incidents. Its highly versatile design means that it is capable of accommodating a wide range of payloads and tools.

The state-of-the-art manipulator arm is equipped with a 3-finger gripper and has greater movement and agility in limited or confined spaces. The wheeled design with paired bogies offers superior mobility on all types of hard and soft terrain and in all weather conditions.

ANDROS™ Unmanned Ground Vehicles

As part of Northrop Grumman, Remotec US Inc. manufacture the ANDROSTM range of EOD unmanned ground vehicles. Outside of the Americas, Remotec UK Ltd markets the latest developed ANDROSTM F6 Series Model no. CX ( also known as the F6B) and HD Model no. SEL.

The larger ANDROSTM F6B platform offers a dual mobility capability: quick release pneumatic wheels for rapid width reduction and patented articulating track to traverse rough terrain.

It has a manipulator arm with 7 degrees of freedom ensuring optimum dexterity and offers screen graphics showing vehicle orientation, feedback from on-board sensors and errors and failures of joints.

The medium sized ANDROSTM HD SEL model is a more compact and robust vehicle that can travel up to speeds of 8.4km/hr and has an extremely durable moulded front-drive range integrating a microphone, speaker, drive camera, firing circuits and LED  lighting.

CALIBER® Medium to Small EOD/SWAT Robots

Northrop Grumman markets the CALIBER® Mk3 and T5 robots into most of the world for ICOR Technology. The Mk3 is a medium–sized platform that offers towing and dragging capability of a larger robot, but with the speed, agility and dexterity of smaller lightweight platforms.

The CALIBER® T5 is a smaller, lighter, narrow robot chassis. It has a single highly agile robotic arm with 5 degrees of movement including a turret, shoulder, elbow, wrist and claw joint. A narrow chassis allows access into cars, buses and planes and its telescoping extension arm can reach into overhead lockers to check for any suspect packages.

Mini-CALIBER® Lightweight Modular Robot

The newly released Mini-CALIBER® is a lightweight, modular robot that is man transportable. It has been especially developed for rapid tactical missions to search rooms, hallways, stair wells and confined spaces quickly.

Moving into CBRN and Integrated Solutions

It is has been our privilege to work and partner with the EOD/IED teams and to understand their complex mission objectives in a turbulent and evolving threat environment.  We can provide technical solutions from our increasing range of vehicles that can be configured according to the operational requirements of the user including EOD, ground surveillance, hazardous material (HazMat) and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) missions.  Furthermore we are now providing bespoke system solutions, integrating our unmanned ground vehicles with command and control systems, the TouchTable® collaborative environment and service support vehicles to produce a standalone mobile capability for locating, identifying and disarming explosive and other hazardous devices, collecting forensic evidence and carrying out criminological analyses.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide.