NURO® Shooting System (Patent Pending)
Vision-Based Range Control
“I was able to finally use the NURO System in a training environment. It is truly a game changer. Shooters will not only have to execute while using NURO, they will have to think, process information, then attempt to make the right decision. It is truly a system that I wish I would have had as a young commando, it would have made us much better on the battlefield. The system is intuitive to the instructor and raises the level of thought while shooting to a new level. “
“Positively the greatest innovation I have seen in the tactical training world in the last 15 years.”
SGM(Ret.) Kyle Lamb
Author of Leadership in the Shadows and Green Eyes & Black Rifles
Founder of Viking Tactics
What is NURO?
The NURO Shooting System (Patent Pending) is a networkable, programmable set of sensory stimulation and performance measurement tools, optimized for live fire small arms training.
Designed to be integrated with virtually all training methods and environments, NURO fills the critical gap between fundamental skill acquisition and the application of those skills in combat environments.
Increase Engagement Speed
Train to put rounds on target faster while also improving situational awareness and decision-making.
Reduce Fratricide
Integrate decision-making, positive target identification, and agile responses to change during all elements of small arms training.
Minimize Infrastructure Costs
Ditch costly, unreliable, bulky, and obsolete turning target systems. Add NURO’s unparalleled capabilities at a discretionary budget price point.
Build Combat-Relevant Visual Skills
Visual range control eliminates pre-defined strings of fire. NURO-based training requires vision techniques that enable awareness.
Improve Decision Making
Integrate vision- and context-based decisions into high-repetition skills training at any scale.
Train+Qualify in De-Escalation
Include decisions to stop and change levels of force in all skills training and testing.
Hardwire Situational Awareness
All skill performance using NURO requires awareness of and response to changes in the surrounding environment.
Support All Training Modes
Smash through training limitations with NURO’s versatility. Live Fire. Qualification. Dryfire. Simulated Weapons. Tactics. Scenarios.
Watch the Teaser
Indoor | Outdoor | All Weather
Why it works
Traditional small arms training involves telling trainees what to do before they do it.
This is inefficient at developing skills that can be applied under combat conditions because most of the brain functions that are required during combat are not used during skills training.
The result of decades of applied research into the neuroscience of learning, NURO brings the visuomotor demands and cognitive chaos of combat to the skill development process.
See the Research Summary and Basis of Design
“If you want to be on the cutting edge, it is required reading.”
– Andy Stanford, Author of Surgical Speed Shooting and Fight at Night
NURO: A Brain-Based Analysis of Tactical Training and the Basis of Design for the World’s Most Capable Tactical Training System, 157 Pages, Soft Cover
NURO summarizes the research behind this game changing advancement in tactical training, providing both the background and the basis of design. Topics include de-escalation, tactical visual skills, engineering neuroplastic change to enhance human performance potential, decision-making, sympathetic fire, a radical re-thinking of the concept of fidelity in training environments, the differences between training and learning, reducing organizational liability through training design, and more.
Improving use-of-force and tactical performance starts here.
The future is now. The future is NURO.
Watch a Live-Fire Demonstration
This handgun only live-fire range video with former Marine and Police Officer Taylor Wright from Defenders and Disciples demonstrates several different equipment configurations and training applications of the NURO System.
Unlock the Foundations of Adult Learning
- NURO effortlessly enables an individualized training pace in group settings. Let NURO handle range control while students focus on learning and instructors focus on teaching.
- Local data display and shooter isolation capability give every trainee access to critical shooting performance feedback on every repetition. This promotes learning and allows students to iterate individually against personalized training objectives.
- Easily create stimulus rich, dynamic training environments. Unlimited configurability and granular instructor control over stressors and cognitive load unlock the door to individualized, engineered training outcomes at scale.
- With the touch of a button, conduct interleaved learning methods with any degree of complexity—promoting neural network construction. Continual skill performance feedback enhances long-term retention and real-world skill application without sacrificing foundational skill development or performance.
Scale to Meet Any Requirement
Manual and Programmed Operation | Local and Centralized Control Options
Applications
- Fundamentals Development
- Gunhandling and Skill Building
- Tactical Visual Skills
- Mobility
- Tactical Scenarios
- Decision Making
- Qualification
- Live Fire
- Dryfire
- Simulated Weapons (e.g., Airsoft, UTM, Sims)
- Lane Range Group Training
- Add Behavior to Shoothouse Targetry
- Human Performance Research
- Contact- to Mid-Distance Rifle
Examples
75 yds
High Angle 1 meter
75 yds
High Angle 1 meter
Self-Contained | Fully Expeditionary Design
Programmable | Networkable | User Configurable
NURO Device
Shape Projection Lenses (Two (2) Pictured) Not Included
Project | Control | Router | Programmer | Shot Detection | Analytics
The NURO® Device is a wirelessly networkable, user programmable combat skills training tool.
Every NURO features four different networking configurations for maximum flexibility in training layout and range control as well as five different modes of operation to match virtually any training requirement.
Start training in seconds with over 270 pre-loaded shooting drills, divided into 65 drill lists to match a wide variety of different skill development and decision-making training applications.
Custom drills to meet any desired training requirement can easily be created by users—directly on the NURO device. Drills can either be run individually or grouped into lists that can be run sequentially or randomly based on the user’s requirements.
User-created custom drills may be exported from the NURO device and either centrally managed and run across any number of NURO arrays from a tablet or pushed to the onboard memory of other NUROs (iOS Application required).
NURO’s robust, weather-resistant design features three lasers, an audible buzzer, onboard shot detection and recording, a mode for data analytics, and a standard 1/4″ female connection that facilitates unlimited flexibility in mounting and placement.
Each NURO device functions as an extraordinarily versatile, highly capable, stand-alone training system for live fire, dryfire, and simulated weapon applications. However, the real power of the NURO System lies in its networking capability.
Multi-NURO arrays facilitate easy creation of multi-directional, three-dimensional training environments with virtually no limits on configuration or application.
Each individual NURO device is capable of wirelessly controlling up to four additional NUROs without the need for any external networking equipment. This feature allows for up to a total of five NUROs working in a single, wirelessly networked, training array without any requirement for any additional equipment.
With the addition of external routers and other networking tools as needed, the NURO System was designed to scale to dozens of devices in a single array with the potential to scale to over one thousand centrally managed NURO projectors.
These capabilities allow for virtually limitless configuration and application, enabling NURO’s ground-breaking training capability to be implemented at any scale, in any environment.
NURO firmware can be updated by the user using the iOS tablet application. All NURO updates are always free of charge.
Discover for yourself what all the fuss is about.
The future is NURO.
Each NURO device requires two (2) 123a batteries (not included).
Shooter Isolation Tool (ISO)
Individual Shooting Performance Data in Group Settings
The ISO Tool is an optional, Low Energy Bluetooth, sensor array intended for weapon or body mounting. ISO detects shots from an individual shooter, while ignoring shots from other shooters. It then provides that information to its controlling NURO device for individualized reporting and analytics on each individual shooter, for every repetition.
ISO’s adjustable sensitivity allows it to function with both live-fire and simulated weapons (e.g., airsoft, UTM, Sim).
Using ISO means that every individual student can receive shooting performance feedback such as response times and shot splits on every repetition, in every training environment. This previously impossible capability opens up ground-breaking improvements in learning potential during group training.
ISOs do not require active communication with the control NURO to either initiate a training event or drill, nor to record shot data. Active communication is only required after the individual drill or event ends, when data is pulled back to the controlling NURO.
This design enables virtually unlimited options for mobility and use of terrain without sacrificing the ability to record, analyze, and evaluate shooting skill performance data on every repetition.
Up to four (4) ISOs can be paired to a single control-configured NURO. This allows for multiple relays without swapping hardware between shooters as well as simultaneous data collection and analysis on multi-shooter engagements.
ISO firmware can be updated by the user using the iOS tablet application. All ISO updates are always free of charge.
Requires a control-configured NURO and one (1) 2032 battery (not included).
Shape Projection Lens (DOE)
Project shapes to Add Context and Cognitive Load
The optional shape projection lenses (Diffractive Optical Elements or DOEs) simply screw in directly over each laser port on the NURO device. A rotating bezel on each lens allows for user-adjustable shape orientation.
The NURO System was engineered to provide stimulation to combat-relevant sensory systems and processing centers while also measuring combat-relevant aspects of shooter performance.
Shape projection lenses were designed to allow the NURO System to stimulate visual and processing centers for functions such as low-level object recognition and partial object reconstruction neural circuitry. Shape projections also provide trainers additional methods of adding context and cognitive loading to skills training as well as for creating drills and scenarios of varying visual and cognitive complexity.
Distances listed for each lens are for a shape size of roughly 22-30cm at the listed distance.
For example, a 10M Hand lens will produce an approximately 22cm hand at 10M, an 11cm hand at 5M and a 44cm hand at 20M.
Silhouette lenses were designed to enable the projection of a silhouette shape on a wall at a high angle for specialized CQB and Shoot House applications.
The high angle projection design facilitates either ground placement or overhead mounting within 12 inches of a wall. This enables rapid placement and re-configuration of a training area and maximizes compatibility with most room entry tactics, including wall flood and point of domination, while minimizing any impediments to entry team mobility or positioning.
Currently available lenses are listed below:
- Hand 10M
- Pistol 10M
- Triangle 10M
- Triangle 1M
- Pistol 1M
- Silhouette (High Angle) 1M
iOS Control Application
**BETA** Accessible with invitation through Apple Test Flight
Wireless Control | Central Range Management | Data Collection
The NURO iOS Application was designed for firearms instructors and range managers who have a need to scale the use of the NURO System in group settings, or to manually control NUROs remotely for specialized training settings such as instructor controlled, interactive shoothouse targetry.
The current BETA application allows synchronized and individual lane control, the running of both pre-loaded and custom, user-created drills using a variety of range management methods, the centralized collection of shooting data, and pushing customized drills to other NUROs. Application also allows users to update both NURO and ISO software (all software updates to NURO and ISO are always free).
The NURO App is currently available on iPad only and accessible by invitation through the Apple’s Test Flight Application.
The NURO® Shooting System
Engineered for Building Gunfighters
