Foster-Miller

Foster-Miller, Inc., is a United States based military robotics manufacturer, a division of the United Kingdom's Qinetiq North America. Its two best-known products are TALON robots and LAST Armor.

Founded and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, it has offices in Washington, D.C., Albany, New York, and near Boston. Foster-Miller became a wholly owned subsidiary of Qinetiq in 2004.

Foster-Miller has about 300 members of staff skilled in aeronautical engineering, administration, chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, mechanical engineering, metallurgy, polymers, polymerization, electromechanical engineering.

Foster-Miller works in the fields of robotics, advanced materials, sensors, custom machinery, medical device design, biopharmaceuticals, C4ISR and transportation. It has been awarded the aerospace quality management standard AS9100 (6 January 2006) and SW-CMM Level 3 software certification (9 February 2006) and ISO 13485 for medical device design and development.