Facts

• Company: Clearpath Robotics
• Product type: UGV
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Mobility
• Website: https://clearpathrobotics.com/jackal-small-unmanned-ground-vehicle/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Timeline / Research
• Supply / Components
• Sources

Summary

Jackal is Clearpath Robotics' compact weatherproof UGV for research, ROS development and outdoor autonomy experiments. It is positioned as a small integrated mobile robot for robotics teams that need a fast, rugged base for navigation, perception and payload testing.

Overview

Jackal is Clearpath Robotics' compact weatherproof UGV for research, ROS development and outdoor autonomy experiments. It is positioned as a small integrated mobile robot for robotics teams that need a fast, rugged base for navigation, perception and payload testing.

Market context

Jackal is Clearpath Robotics' compact weatherproof UGV for research, ROS development and outdoor autonomy experiments. It is positioned as a small integrated mobile robot for robotics teams that need a fast, rugged base for navigation, perception and payload testing.

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

mobility

Capability

mobility

Deployment environment

Jackal UGV operating environments

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: mobility
• Capability: mobility
• Deployment environment: Jackal UGV operating environments

Specifications

• Dimensions: 508 x 430 x 250 mm
• Max Payload Kg: 20 kg kg
• Speed: 2.0 m/s m/s
• Ground Clearance: 65 mm mm
• Battery Capacity Wh: 270 Wh Wh
• Runtime: 8 hours basic usage; 2 hours heavy usage
• Charge Time: 4 hours
• Communication: Ethernet and USB 3.0

Timeline / Research

• 2026-06-03 - Research Publication - VASO paper evaluates formally verifiable physical-AI skills on Clearpath Jackal - The VASO paper introduces a self-evolving robot-skill method that turns formal-verification counterex…
• 2026-05-13 - Research Publication - Safety-constrained RL paper validates reachability-checked navigation on Clearpath Jackal - The paper combines CVaR-constrained reinforcement learning with post-training reachability…
• 2025-12-10 - Research Publication - YOPO-Nav paper benchmarks visual navigation on Clearpath Jackal trajectories - YOPO-Nav uses one-pass exploration videos and 3D Gaussian Splatting graphs for visual navigation without…
• 2025-10-30 - Research Publication - Heterogeneous robot-collaboration paper runs real-world missions with Clearpath Jackal - The paper proposes a grounded generative-intelligence framework for heterogeneous robot teams…
• 2025-09-16 - Research Publication - Zero-to-autonomy paper tests online dynamics adaptation on Clearpath Jackal - The paper presents an online dynamics-adaptation method that updates function-encoder coefficients from s…
• 2024-10-17 - Research Publication - Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots - The paper evaluates jailbreaking risks for LLM-controlled robots using a Jackal UGV platform.
• 2024-07-13 - Research Publication - Speech-Guided Sequential Planning for Autonomous Navigation using Large Language Model Meta AI 3 (Llama3) - The paper studies speech-guided sequential planning for autonomous navigati…
• 2024-05-03 - Research Publication - ROS2swarm - A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behaviors - The paper presents ROS2swarm and includes Jackal UGV experiments for swarm robot behaviors.
• 2023-03-07 - Research Publication - One-4-All: Neural Potential Fields for Embodied Navigation - The paper evaluates neural potential fields for embodied navigation with a Jackal UGV.
• 2022-09-19 - Research Publication - Loc-NeRF: Monte Carlo Localization using Neural Radiance Fields - The paper localizes a Jackal UGV using Monte Carlo localization with neural radiance fields.

Supply / Components

• jetson_tx2_compute_for_jackal_ugv - Jetson Tx2 Compute For Jackal UGV - Compute & Control - NVIDIA - NVIDIA supplies compute control to Clearpath Robotics - source: clearpathrobotics.com