Oshkosh Striker Volterra Electric Airport Rescue and Firefighting Vehicle Took Top Honors in CES Innovation Awards

Air travel is expanding at an unprecedented pace, with more than 4,000 commercial airports in operation worldwide and over 100,000 flights taking off each day. Global passenger volumes are projected to reach 20 billion annually by 2042, effectively doubling current levels. The Oshkosh Striker Volterra Electric Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) vehicle is engineered to support this growth by delivering the advanced safety, reliability, and operational performance that modern airports require.

Its hybrid power architecture combines battery-electric capability with diesel operation, enabling zero-emission travel through terminals in battery mode and delivering up to 28 percent faster acceleration to emergency scenes compared with conventional diesel ARFF units, highlighting the superior speed of electric vehicles, as they now dominate sportscars and racing.

Striker Volterra is certified to National Fire Protection Association 414 requirements and International Civil Aviation Organization standards, including compliance with the three-minute global response benchmark. Few travelers realize that when ARFF coverage is unavailable, flights may be delayed or diverted until service is restored. By helping airports sustain continuous emergency readiness as infrastructure scales, Striker Volterra supports higher operational uptime while contributing to quieter, cleaner, and safer travel environments.

Oshkosh Corporation Highlights Its Latest Technology Portfolio This Week at CES, in Booth #4418

Oshkosh Corporation, a global leader in purpose-built vehicles, equipment, and services, highlights its latest technology portfolio this week at CES in booth #4418. The company showcased innovations designed to support those who perform demanding work around the world—building critical infrastructure, delivering essential services, and safeguarding communities. These solutions are shaping the next generation of job sites, neighborhoods, and airports by integrating autonomy, artificial intelligence, connectivity, and electrification to support firefighters, airport ground crews, mail carriers, soldiers, and construction professionals.

The company demonstrated autonomous, robotic and connected technologies that are redefining work-at-height applications by linking people, equipment, tools, and materials into an intelligent ecosystem. Oshkosh also presented AI-enabled systems that identify roadside collision risks and deliver real-time alerts to operators, platforms that transform recycling at the point of collection, electrified emergency response vehicles built for rapid airport deployment, and a modular autonomous robotic platform designed to support rapid aircraft turnarounds while improving safety and operational efficiency.

“The future is taking shape, now. At CES, we are showcasing our vision of the job sites, neighborhoods and airports of the future and how Oshkosh’s advanced technology empowers everyday heroes with safe, intuitive, productive and clean solutions. Together with our customers, we’re transforming how we live, move and work,” said John Pfeifer, president and chief executive officer of Oshkosh Corporation.

Construction environments are complex, rapidly changing, and often disconnected, resulting in fragmented workflows and reactive operations. Oshkosh’s JLG® brand is addressing these challenges through an intelligent, connected job site ecosystem. At CES, the company introduced next-generation electric articulated boom lifts equipped with autonomous end-effector systems that transform traditional lifts into industrial robotic platforms capable of performing complex, repetitive tasks such as welding, painting, duct installation, and material handling without exposing operators to work at height.

Electrification enables quiet, emissions-free operation in sensitive environments. This solution received the CES 2026 Innovation Award in Robotics and was also named an honoree in the Construction and Industrial Technology category. The company also demonstrated micro-sized scissor lifts that use leader–follower technology, allowing a single operator to guide multiple units to move equipment and materials efficiently across job sites or operate autonomously to deliver materials to precise locations. These compact machines are well suited for data centers and other space-constrained environments.

Oshkosh is advancing its job site automation strategy through the acquisition of core technology from Canvas, a construction robotics company known for developing the first robotic drywall finishing system. The platform automates repetitive tasks while improving safety, quality, and productivity in one of construction’s most demanding trades, broadening Oshkosh’s portfolio of intelligent, connected equipment.

Beyond construction, Oshkosh is also transforming neighborhoods. Many of the technologies introduced at previous CES events are now entering production and beginning to impact communities. The company presented AI-powered contamination detection for refuse vehicles that uses camera vision and edge processing to identify contaminants in recycling streams in real time and link them to specific pickup locations, enabling municipalities and haulers to improve recycling performance and reduce landfill use.

Oshkosh also highlighted advancements to HARR-E, its Hailable Autonomous Refuse Robot, Electric, which now offers a two-piece design for easier waste transfer, automated measurement of volume and weight, and AI-optimized routing for efficient multi-stop service in planned communities, campuses, corporate parks, event venues, malls, and senior living facilities. In addition, Oshkosh is expanding use of its Collision Avoidance Mitigation System, originally developed for firefighters working near active traffic, to EMS crews, law enforcement, and tow operators, with future mobile roadside deployments under development.

At next-generation airports, Oshkosh is bringing autonomy, AI, connectivity, and electrification together. In addition to its ARFF innovations, the company demonstrated autonomous airport robots designed to support the “perfect turn,” the time from aircraft landing to takeoff. These modular autonomous machines perform multiple ramp and airfield tasks such as positioning aircraft, setting chocks, connecting ground power, and assisting with baggage operations. Built on a proven platform originally developed for defense applications, they combine autonomous mobility, AI-driven perception, and configurable task hardware to increase flexibility, utilization, uptime, and return on investment for airport operators. Travelers increasingly expect safety, efficiency, and speed, and Oshkosh’s technologies are positioned to help airports meet those expectations.

CES attendees can see demonstrations and learn more about Oshkosh’s latest technologies for everyday heroes by visiting booth #4418 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Oshkosh will also host a series of Tech Talks in its booth, offering insights into how autonomy, AI, connectivity, and electrification will shape the airports, job sites, and neighborhoods of the future.