41 What other Organizations are working with robotics? USDepartment of Defense
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This article is from the Robotics FAQ, by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by others.
41 What other Organizations are working with robotics? USDepartment of Defense
"Air Force's Robotics and Automation Center of Excellence (RACE)"
Robotics and Automation Center of Excellence
SA-ALC/TIEST
450 Quentin Roosevelt Rd
Bldg 183
Kelly AFB
San Antonio, TX 78241-6416
url: [54]http://www.kelly-afb.org/links/orgs/race/race.htm
net: [55]ti-race@sadis01.kelly.af.mil
contact: Steve Knauber [56]sknauber@sadis05.kelly.af.mil
The mission of the Robotics and Automation Center of Excellence (RACE)
is to insert appropriate robotics and automation technologies into Air
Force industrial processes. RACE accomplishes this mission by keeping
abreast of current technology and recommending any technologies that
may resolve present or future Air Force requirements. RACE is the link
between industry, universities, the Department of Energy, NASA,
technical societies, contractors and the Air Force.
RACE is also responsible for providing organic technical expertise to
the Air Force during integration of new robotics and automation system
developments. RACE acts as a consultant throughout the entire
acquisition process, providing technical evaluations from initial
problem specification to implementation of proposed solution. RACE
employee expertise, in-house test and evaluation facilities, and
process studies are all used to support hardware transfer to the user.
"[57]NRaD" NRAD is the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
Division of the Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center
(NCCOSC), located in San Diego, California. NRaD and its predecessor
organizations (Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), Naval Undersea
Center (NUC), etc.) have been involved in various aspects of robotics
since the early 1960's.
Robotics research and development at NRaD are currently performed by
two groups:
[58]The Advanced Systems Division (Code 37): land and air robots
[59]The Ocean Engineering Division (Code 74): underwater robots
Companies
"Redzone Robotics"
2425 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-4639
tel: 412.765.3064
fax: 412.364.3069
contact: Dave White
A spin-off of CMU, Redzone has focused on hazwaste and nuke
manipulator applications but is also developing mobile applications.
Primarily protoypes and not multiple unit manufacturing at this time.
"Southwest Research Institute"
San Antonio, TX
Robotics and Automation Department
Some large systems for servicing aircraft (painting, spraying,
deriveting etc)
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