Ghost Robotics Vision 60

Vision 60 is the quadruped that took the category out of the laboratory. Ghost Robotics, founded in Philadelphia in 2015 as a spin-out of research at the University of Pennsylvania, built it around a single design decision: no perception in the control loop for basic walking. The legs run on proprioception - joint position and torque sensing in a 12-motor, back-drivable drivetrain, three degrees of freedom per leg - so the machine keeps its footing on rubble, sand and snow without needing to see them, and keeps walking when a camera fails, a light dies or a leg is damaged. Cameras and lidar sit on top as mission payload, not as a crutch for balance. The published figures read like military hardware rather than a research platform: 51 kg tare weight, 10 kg payload, IP67 sealing, an operating range of -40 C to 55 C, and 3.15 hours of continuous walking at 0.9 m/s, roughly 10 km, or 21 hours on standby with the computer and cameras live. Fast walk is 1.2 m/s and the sprint reaches 2.4 m/s. Standing height is 685 mm with a 419 mm ride height; the body is 950 mm long and 570 mm wide, narrow enough at 250 mm across the torso to work doorways and corridors. Sensing is five 1080p RGB cameras, four Intel D435 depth units and dual-antenna RTK GPS, with an NVIDIA Xavier module, 32 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD doing the computing, and Wi-Fi plus 4G/LTE for the link. What separates Vision 60 from its competitors is the deployment record. A prototype was patrolling the flight line at Nellis Air Force Base during an Advanced Battle Management System exercise in September 2020; base-security work began at Tyndall Air Force Base the same year; Portland Air National Guard Base followed in April 2022, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in July 2022 for damage assessment and patrol, and Holloman Air Force Base in 2023. That record cuts both ways - in 2021 a version shown with a SWORD International rifle mounted on its back triggered a public argument about armed robots that the company has lived with ever since. In July 2024 the South Korean defence group LIG Nex1 closed the purchase of a 60 percent controlling stake for USD 240 million, valuing Ghost Robotics at around USD 400 million, and in December 2025 the company added a manipulator arm to the platform, moving it from watching a perimeter to opening what it finds there. Ghost Robotics publishes no list price; the platform is sold to government and industrial customers through its own channel and through defence integrators.

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