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Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced at SOF Week the official launch of its new FirstLook® 125 throwable personal reconnaissance robot.
The FirstLook 125 unmanned ground system delivers real-time visual, thermal, and audio situational awareness across complex terrain, lowering force risk and enabling faster decision-making.
Purpose-built for coordinated ground-air missions, FirstLook 125 shares a common controller and operational architecture with Teledyne FLIR Defense’s Black Hornet® 4 nano-drone. This enables a single user to deploy and manage both systems without changing tools or workflows. The commonality extends FirstLook beyond ground-only reconnaissance, allowing users to combine interior and exterior ISR, quickly transition between platforms, and maintain continuous situational awareness across domains. The result is an integrated ‘first-in’ capability that delivers greater flexibility and mission utility at the squad and fire-team level.
“As the need for interoperability with unmanned operations grows, FirstLook 125 can support missions demanding both ground and airborne intelligence, thanks to its common controller,” said Tung Ng, Vice President of Unmanned Systems North America at Teledyne FLIR Defense. “And ruggedness isn’t even a question. Through repeated throws, hard drops – plus its agility in confined spaces – FirstLook 125 is engineered for reliability when conditions are toughest.
“Along with our FirstLook 110 robot, the FirstLook family continues to give operators eyes, ears – and confidence – before putting personnel in harm’s way,” Ng added.
FirstLook 125’s advanced tracked mobility is optimized for stairwells, rubble, and uneven ground, producing stable, reliable movement in the most challenging environments. Its lightweight 5.7lb (2.6kg) design can sustain 16ft (5m) drops and self-rights instantly, remaining mission-ready after any throw or tumble. Using rugged, articulated flippers, FirstLook 125 pushes through debris, climbs obstacles, and maneuvers inside confined spaces while bringing an enhanced EO/IR camera suite, integrated illumination, and two-way audio to low-light, GPS-denied, and cluttered operational conditions.
