Pearson Engineering

Pearson Engineering operates from Armstrong Works in Newcastle upon Tyne, designing mobility, counter-mobility and survivability equipment for land forces. The wider business supplies vehicle integration kits, mine ploughs, obstacle-clearing equipment and defence manufacturing services. Its robotics activity covers remote vehicle control and mission equipment for uncrewed and optionally crewed platforms.

BEACON converts existing fighting vehicles into optionally crewed robotic assets. RCV-Pioneer provides interchangeable mission payloads for robotic combat vehicles, including minefield breaching and urban obstacle clearance, while Threat-Sense equips vehicles or UAVs to detect and identify surface-laid mines. These systems provide the mission hardware and control functions used for robotic combat-engineering tasks.