GS Engineering’s REAPr unmanned ground vehicle designed for US Marines
GVSETS 2025 — Michigan-based vehicle-maker GS Engineering this week is using the GVSETS Conference here to promote what one company official called a “small, cost-effective” ground vehicle platform designed for use by the US Marines.
The Remote Expeditionary Autonomous Pioneer System or REAPr was developed as part of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project. It’s meant to be rapidly deployable from a V-22 tiltrotor aircraft and be highly customizable.
“The Marine Corps wanted basically anything that could be a modular payload on a robot. They wanted a laundry list of capabilities: be able to fight fires, dig ditches, conduct area denial missions, lift and handle pallets,” GS Engineering Director of Business Development and Marketing Traci Webb told Breaking Defense.
Webb said the Marines intend to deploy this capability in dangerous, risky missions instead of sending troops. For that matter, path and trail clearance, as well as explosive hazard defeat, are other user cases.