Lifting, moving and handling heavy loads in complex, unstructured environments is a challenge in many commercial, industrial and first responder environments. The Big-Arm Teleoperation System provides a unique and effective solution to this ongoing problem.

Big-Arm consists of a single, or dual-armed, human-controlled robot mounted on an agile vehicle base. It uses a high fidelity, force reflective, master-slave configuration where the robot arms are kinematically equivalent to the human arm — making the system intuitive to use, effective and safe to operate.

The system is equipped with seven degree-of-freedom slave arms that have a reach of seven feet and that are each able to lift and manipulate 200-pound objects anywhere in their workspace. A dual-armed system can handle payloads up to 400 pounds anywhere in its combined workspace. It can also lift larger payloads in certain regions of the workspace.

Man-in-the-loop and high fidelity force-reflection make the system ideally suited to work in complex and unstructured environments. Additionally, since this is a robot, it is able to function as a robot with any desired level of human control: from full teleloperation by the operator to full autonomy by the robot, or any level of operator control in between.

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