Updated on 21 January 2026
OZZIE Tharos UGV
Cofounder - CEO at OZZIE Robotics
Thessaloniki, Greece
About
Ozzie Tharos is an autonomous UGV designed to operate reliably in complex and harsh outdoor environments.
It is a rugged, weatherproof 4x4 all-wheel-drive platform, offering high mobility and stability across uneven terrain and demanding conditions.
The robot integrates multi-layer communications, including RF, 5G, and satellite links, ensuring continuous connectivity in remote or infrastructure-limited areas.
Ozzie Tharos supports both teleoperation and fully autonomous operation, enabling flexible deployment depending on mission requirements.
As a dual-use system, it has been deployed and tested in a variety of real-world scenarios, including military exercises and demonstrations conducted in collaboration with the Greek Army
Looking for
- Commercial partners
- Technological partners
- Investment opportunities
- Other
Applies to
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Drones
- Weather, climatic and geological disasters
- Crisis response and recovery
- Security against fire
- Security against emergencies
- Resilient infrastructure
- Border control
- Satellites, satellites services, systems and equipments
- Security
- Robotics
- Logistics
- ICT
- Land vehicles, systems and equipments
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
EU Project Collaboration Opportunities with OZZIE Robotics
- Cybersecurity
- Border Management
- Innovation Action
- Resilient Infrastructure
- Disaster-resilient society
- Fighting Crime and Terrorism
- Research and Innovation Action
- Coordination and Support Action
- Support to Security Research and Innovation
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-02: Demand-led innovation in security
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-02: Accessible and available travel facilitation
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-03: Missing persons: prevention and investigation
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-03: Public procurement of innovation for security
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-01: Advanced border surveillance and situational awareness
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-02: Multi-hazard approach and cumulative / cascading impacts
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-04: Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster risk solutions
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-01: Designing new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparedness
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-01: Tools and processes to support stress tests of critical infrastructure
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-02: Security challenges of the green transition in urban und peri urban areas
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-01: Improving capabilities of law enforcement to counter climate-related challenges
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-01: Open topic on supporting disruptive technological innovations for civil security
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-06: Prevention and mitigation of misuse of synthetic biology for bioterrorism purposes
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-03: Reliability of age assessment methods in the context of security and border management
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-02-CS-ECCC-02:Enhancing the Security, Privacy and Robustness of AI Models and Systems (SecureAI)
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-02-CS-ECCC-01:Approaches and tools for security in software and hardware development and assessment
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-02-CS-ECCC-03:Advanced cryptographic schemes and High-Assurance high-speed cryptographic implementations
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-04: Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crime
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-05: Enhancing the security of citizens against terrorism and lone-actor violence in confined spaces such as schools
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-04: Development of ecosystem and next-generation capabilities for a secured European Critical Communication System in civil security
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-03: Targeted innovative capabilities for the resilience of critical entities to natural and human-induced disasters, including hybrid scenarios
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-05: Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate-change related scenarios for a more resilient Europe
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-02: Open topic on preventing and countering the misuse of emerging technologies for criminal purposes, including issues related to lawful access to data
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-03: Development of innovative tools, processes, equipment and technologies through responses to disasters and emergencies for search and rescue in hazardous conditions
Andreas Kargakos
Cofounder - CEO at OZZIE Robotics
Thessaloniki, Greece
Product
- Security
- Border control
- Security against fire
- Crisis response and recovery
- Security against emergencies
- Weather, climatic and geological disasters
Ahmed Zayed
CEO at iotblue
Madrid, Spain
Product
- Security
- Simulation
- IoT and IIoT
- Commercial partners
- Security against fire
- Resilient infrastructure
- Consulting and Engineering
- Crisis response and recovery
- Security against emergencies
- Weather, climatic and geological disasters
Víctor Amadeo Bañuls Silvera
R&D Manager at MSIG
Seville, Spain