Deployment
Centaur at USA
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
Recent coverage
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Centaur is the US Army's MTRS Inc. II program of record. Used by Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps EOD teams. $62M in additional orders for ~500 robots raised program value to $250M+. Over 1,800 Centaurs ordered to date. 1,000th MTRS Inc II system delivered. Used for IED/EOD, CBRN, UXO clearance. Also suitable for UXO clearance in Ukraine.
Exposure
- Customer segment
- research
- Scale tier
- mass 100 999
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Centaur at USA.
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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 States/USA
- Operator
- Teledyne FLIR
- Status
- operational
- Scale at site
- 100+ units
- Site environment
- mixed
- Location precision
- verified coordinates
- First seen
- 2020-01-01
- ID
ed014d3a-0aee-4372-bf36-452846d30e54
Timeline
- Jan 2020First recordedCentaur first documented operating at USA.
- Aug 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
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Centaur operates in USA. 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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