Centaur

Teledyne FLIR's Centaur is a medium-sized rugged tactical UGV (about 160 lb) for EOD, reconnaissance, and hazardous-mission support, with an EO/IR camera suite and a manipulator arm reaching over six feet; the US Armed Services ordered roughly 500 additional units in a ~$62.1M contract.

Yes. Centaur is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Centaur's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Weight: ~160 lb; Runtime: 8 h; Max speed: 4 km/h; Payload: 14.5 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Centaur is made by Teledyne FLIR, based in Wilsonville, Oregon, USA, founded in 1978.

10 verified deployments of Centaur are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Afghanistan, US Marine Corps, USA.

Centaur is at research stage and is not yet available for sale.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable defense_ugv robots to Centaur include THeMIS, TALON, ROOK, MTGR.

Centaur and THeMIS (Milrem Robotics · 22 deployments) are both defense_ugv robots on the DEPLOY registry. Centaur has 10 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Centaur ranks in roughly the top 16% of defense_ugv models tracked by the registry.

Centaur is at the research stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Research stage means active development without commercial deployments on file.

Centaur has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

The FLIR Centaur is a medium-sized unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) weighing roughly 160 lbs that provides standoff capability to detect, confirm, identify, and dispose of hazards. It is one of the most widely fielded ground robots in the U.S. military, used by Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams for route clearance, disabling mines and IEDs. FLIR secured $32M in full-rate production orders from U.S. armed services.