EU-funded consortium unveils border-control robot
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Using a €13 million grant from the European Commission’s research budget and €7 million of private funding, a consortium of researchers and private firms has after four years of work produced a functioning prototype of the “transportable autonomous patrol for land border surveillance” or “Talos.”
The unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) was demonstrated in Poland in mid-April at a military training ground in front of a hundred-or-so people, including officials from Frontex, the EU’s Warsaw-based border control agency, Polish ministers and border guards from around Europe.