We are not talking about Dolores from Westworld, we are talking about a robot or Unmannged Ground Vehicle (UGV).This is the creation of Ghost Robotics (GS), a Philadelphia-based robotics company and a strategic Rajant partner. The bot’s formal name is the Ghost Vision 60 from the Ghost Vision™ and Wraith™ Series. It is affectionately nicknamed Dolores after Westworld’s android by the GS development team who tinker with the model daily.
The 65-pound GS Dolores is a mid-sized, foldable , teleoperated and autonomous all-terrain, quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle (Q-UGV) outfitted with a software development kit. Fully operated manually or autonomously and field-deployable, her features are numerous.
Similar to the Westworld Dolores, the GS Dolores is a fast, ultra-agile, traversable, and rugged android with a high-endurance. Dolores is:
The GS Dolores tackles mission-critical tasks in hazardous environments that are too dull, too dirty, or too dangerous for humans. Dolores us used in military, mining, natural resources, and many other industries. This robot can also navigate tunnels, run in complete darkness, and stay balanced even on the rockiest terrains.
The GS Dolores is also easily programmable with third-party autonomy applications. When using the Rajant Kinetic Mesh® wireless mesh network technology, the Ghost Vision 60 houses one of Rajant’s BreadCrumb® radios to operate a mesh network.
This ensures continuous connectivity allowing it to run underground and navigate the toughest terrains without losing maneuverability and connectivity. With Rajant’s InstaMesh® technology, multiple peer connections per node make it much harder to have a single node become a point of failure. When operating robotics underground, it is essential to have controllability and connectivity at all times.
We can’t wait to see what happens next with the GS robotics, where their forward-thinking, vision, and engineering takes us next.