West Covina SWAT team in Southern Californi
TML, Inc also continues to grow our prototyping facility where we design and fabricate custom machines for a multitude of applications. Our team has created devices used in environments ranging from hostage negotiation to the filming of penguins in the Arctic.
Here is just one of the custom jobs completed by TML's prototyping lab. We built this robot for the West Covina SWAT team in Southern California. It has a 5 axis telescoping arm that can extend over 4 feet from its original length and can lift 15 pounds fully extended, able can reach a total height of almost 6 feet. The gripper is accompanied by a 220X Zoom/Pan/Tilt camera and a wide angle gripper-focused camera and a retrieval hook. There are several detachable tools that the gripper can grasp or be manually attached in a matter of seconds.
The custom Operator Control Unit has true hot swappable batteries, a built in battery charger, 2-way audio with blue-tooth headset, 4-camera quadplexing and dual 3-axis joysticks for arm control. This allows the operator precise control control of all the arm joints simultaneously. This robot can climb stairs and see over a privacy fence. It weighs in at only 125 pounds and has a speed of 3.5 ft/sec. It has a run time of approximately 4 hours depending on mission profile and can be deployed in less than 1 minute.
