Deployment
Centaur at United Kingdom
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.
Centaur by Teledyne FLIR · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified · Defense UGV
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Centaur UGV deployed by US military EOD teams on missions in UK, Gibraltar, and Cyprus. Widely fielded ground robot in US military.
Exposure
- Customer segment
- agriculture
- Scale tier
- commercial 10 99
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Centaur at United Kingdom.
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-21
- Model
- Centaur
- Company
- Teledyne FLIR
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Operator
- Teledyne FLIR
- Status
- operational
- Scale at site
- 11 to 100 units
- Site environment
- outdoor
- Location precision
- verified coordinates
- First seen
- 2022-01-01
- ID
418d3440-dd0e-4772-a6ce-861256a69c8c
Timeline
- Jan 2022First recordedCentaur first documented operating at United Kingdom.
- Aug 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Centaur operates in United Kingdom. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: research
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: defense_ugv
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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