Clearpath Robotics Jackal / Husky UGV

Two wheeled unmanned ground vehicle platforms from Canada's Clearpath, the most common outdoor research bases.

Jackal and Husky are two wheeled UGVs, meaning uncrewed ground vehicles with no onboard driver, from the Canadian company Clearpath Robotics, acquired by US-based Rockwell Automation in 2023 and now operating as one of its brands. Jackal is compact, weighing about 17 kg with a 20 kg payload and a top speed of 2 m/s, rated IP62; Husky is a mid-size four-wheel base, with the newer Husky A300 weighing about 80 kg unloaded with a 100 kg payload, rated IP54. Both ship with ROS, meaning Robot Operating System, an onboard computer, GPS, and an IMU already wired up, with a mounting plate on top ready for a lidar, camera, or even a robot arm. They solve the problem of not wanting to build your own vehicle just to do navigation, mapping, or field-robotics research, which is why they appear as the experimental platform in a large number of SLAM and outdoor-navigation papers.

ExampleMounting a lidar and a UR5e arm on top of a Husky is a common DIY outdoor mobile-manipulation setup in many labs.

Also called

Jackal, Husky, Husky A300

Related

Mobile Base (Chassis) · Wheeled Robot · Autonomous Mobile Robot · Robot Operating System · Simultaneous Localization and Mapping · Navigation

Sources

Jackal UGV - Clearpath Robotics
Husky A300 - Clearpath Robotics

As of

2025