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Marathon Targets makes autonomous robotic targets for live-fire military training. Their humanoid robots drive themselves around firing ranges, take cover, communicate with each other, and respond to hits like a thinking adversary would, giving troops a realistic moving target that legacy paper-and-track systems cannot match. The Sydney-based company deployed the world's first autonomous tactical training robots in 2008. Customers now span four continents and include the US Marine Corps, US Army, Australian Defence Force, Bundeswehr, Canadian Forces, and several others. Track record: 20,000+ training events, over 200,000 miles of autonomous driving under fire. A USMC evaluation across 5,000+ shooters reported the system was a vast improvement over existing training modalities. The Marines tripled lethality scores in a single training day after switching from static targets to Marathon robots. The category is narrow (live-fire military training) but Marathon is the dominant global vendor. Real Australian-built robotics with serious AI behind the autonomy stack.