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Military Robots Change Combat Market Assessment

July 2008 | 20 pages | ID: MF061FFFA3EEN
WinterGreen Research

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All markets depend on automation of process, replacement of manual process with automated process, whether it be a movie or a SOA services engagement, people are willing to pay for automated process. The march toward automated process has been steady, accelerating with the introduction of the microprocessor computer. In the case of military ground robots, the thought of replacing ground soldiers, replacing infantry with robotic devices is a little scary because it represents such a significant change in the status quo.

The new technology that drives markets is only adopted as it is offered at a price point that is acceptable to the market. Military ground robots have achieved an acceptable level of trials where they have proved their success. This story is detailed in the separate study on Military Ground Robots Market Strategies, Shares And Forecasts. In the context of market shifts automated process has had a steady march towards automation.

The Military Robots study from WGR has been selling briskly worldwide. The economic factors that drive markets are two fold:

1. Successful trials

2. Need to achieve competitive advantage or respond to competitive threats

Both of these are directly driving the market for military robots.

The challenge to the military organizations around the world is that robots used by the infantry have the capability to change the nature of warfare dramatically. Two questions that emerge are: is the technology ready for widespread use and are the price points for units affordable. The price points are driven lower by economies of scale.

The competitive channeling of the challenge becomes to protect the borders of any nation. National boundaries can be defended in a new and more effective manner with the military ground robots, but these defensive strategies depend on significant investment in technology. They also depend on a realignment of traditional military organizations with all branches of the military working cooperatively to implement military ground robots.
MILITARY ROBOTS CHANGE GROUND COMBAT: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Military Robots Change Combat: Executive Summary

MILITARY ROBOTS CHANGE GROUND COMBAT: DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS

Military Ground Robots Change the Nature of Combat
Military Ground Robot Market Growth Factors
  Military Ground Robot Assumptions: Programs Expected to Be Funded
Roadmap For Military Robots
Military Robot Market Growth Assumptions:
  The New Nationalism: Global Economic Forces Supported By Large Global Enterprise Organizations
  Response to Terrorists
Economic Factors That Drive Markets
  Replacement Of Manual Process With Automated Process
  Resistance To Adoption And Expansion Of That Initial Automation
  Ground Robot Existing Programs

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

MILITARY ROBOT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

MILITARY ROBOT MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS

Table 1 Military Ground Robot Assumptions: Programs
Table 2 Worldwide Military Mid Size and Large Robot Market Forecasts, 2008-2014
Table 3 Worldwide Military Large Robot Market Segment Forecasts, 2008-2014
Table 4 Worldwide Military Mid Size Robot Market Segment Forecasts, 2008-2014
Figure 5 Robot Roadmap of US Military
Figure 6 Roadmap for US Military Robots
Table 7 US Military Unmanned Robot Groups
Table 8 Notes on Market Driving Forces for Military Ground Robots

MARKET ASPECTS PROFILED

Unmanned Transport Vehicles That Perform Major Military Functions
EOD Teams And Combat Engineers
Improvised Explosive Device Situations (IED)
Military Robots That Enter Buildings And Search For Chemical And Biological Weapons (Chem Search)
Infantry
Mules Autonomously Carry Loads For Soldiers
Small Reconnaissance Robots, Designed To Enter Buildings And Send Back Pictures To Soldiers
Battlefields -- Remotely Controlled Armed Robots Were Sent To Iraq, But Have Not Seen Action


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