The United States Air Force Research Lab has awarded Asylon Inc. a contract to provide the future of persistent ISR, inspection and perimeter security.

According to Asylon, this includes the exploration of the ability to use available water-based resources in the mission operating environment to generate power and recharge air and ground autonomous platforms, which will allow them to operate longer at the point of need.

Under this contract, Asylon has partnered with Ghost Robotics. The companies will develop a combined, autonomous, and self-powering air and ground robotic platform by integrating their respective robotic systems. The platform will use DroneHome, which is Asylon’s patented automated battery SWAP base station.

Asylon is currently exploring if the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory’s proprietary nanogalvanic hydrogen generating powder technology can help advance the efforts of the companies.

“The integration of Ghosts’ Q-UGV robot into the DroneCore platform has been a longtime coming,” says Michael Quiroga, chief revenue officer. “Our teams have a tremendous amount of respect for each other. ASYLON is more than excited to add automated ground robotics to our growing list of DroneCore capabilities.”

A globally scalable autonomous security drone technology, Asylon’s DroneCore System is optimized for remote command and control. Ghost Robotics’ family of autonomous all-terrain Q-UGVs are optimized for unstructured terrain and high endurance security, safety and inspection missions.

The companies say that by combining their respective technologies, warfighters will have a competitive advantage thanks to a number of capabilities including, but not limited to, autonomous persistent air and ground perimeter patrols, true robotic remote guarding 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and optimized self-sustaining power generation.

“The Ghost team is excited to partner with ASYLON on this integration opportunity. Our legged UGVs (Q-UGV) robots’ combined capabilities will deliver immediate value to both the commercial security and defense spaces,” says Jiren Parikh, CEO Ghost Robotics.