page_title: Unmanned ground vehicle
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Unmanned ground vehicle / Uses / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: Navya Autonomous bus trail in South Perth, Western Australia
context_page_description: An unmanned ground vehicle is a vehicle that operates while in contact with the ground and without an onboard human presence. UGVs can be used for many applications where it may be inconvenient, dangerous, or impossible to have a human operator present. Generally, the vehicle will have a set of sensors to observe the environment, and will either autonomously make decisions about its behavior or pass the information to a human operator at a different location who will control the vehicle through teleoperation.
  The UGV is the land-based counterpart to unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles. Unmanned robotics are being actively developed for both civilian and military use to perform a variety of dull, dirty, and dangerous activities.
context_section_description: Vehicles that carry, but are not operated by a human, are not technically unmanned ground vehicles, however, the technology for development is similar.
caption: NAVYA autonomous bus being trialed on road in Western Australia during 2016
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