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English: Pictured is a micro remotely piloted unmanned aerial vehicle (RPAS) being tested as part of the UK Governments Project MINERVA.

A new fleet of robots and drones designed to test for chemical agents, provide 3D mapping and identify casualties have been put through their paces by troops, police officers and scientists for the first time.

Tests of the cutting-edge multi-million-pound project, co-funded by the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office, included robots that can ‘read’ and climb stairs and miniature drones weighing less than a bar of soap which could soon come into service to rapidly assess hazardous scenes.

The aim of the ground-breaking research, named Project MINERVA, is to reduce the risk to emergency services and front-line troops attending incidents or operations involving hazardous chemical or biological materials.

Recent trials, saw concept drones and robots thrown into simulated contaminated scenarios in both UK homeland and battlefield environments. The technology was tested against the speed and accuracy of human response teams supported by specialist Dstl scientists, the military, police and fire services.

Project MINERVA was launched in September 2016 and has been supported by over £3 million in joint funding over 24 months. The project intends to bring the designs from concept to reality in an accelerated timeframe. The recent trials involved the winning concepts for phase 2 of the project.

The project is led by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). It is funded jointly by the Ministry of Defence science and technology portfolio and the Home Office and contracted through the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) with funding from Defence Science and Technology (DST).

  • Organization: MOD
  • Object Name: Minerva RPAS
  • Supplemental Categories: Exercises, Operations, Engineering, Future, Equipment
  • Keywords: System, Air, Piloted, Remotely, RPAS, UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Unmanned, Aircraft, Sensors, Remote Control Vehicle, Engineering & Logistics Vehicles, Vehicle, Equipment, MINERVA, DSTL, Future, Unmanned and Autonomous vehicle
  • Country: UK
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