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Robots Built in W.Va. Going to Iraq to Detonate Bombs
By Cindi Lash, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 21, 2006
FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Zipping over the pavement on saucer-sized black wheels, the remote-controlled truck at first glance appears to be a souped-up version of a battery-powered sidewalk toy.
But by next week, hundreds of these metal-sheathed, camera-equipped robots will be hitting the ground in Iraq, where U.S. soldiers will use them to destroy lethal improvised explosive devices from a distance.
The remote-controlled BomBot, aims to provide U.S. forces with a safer, more cost-effective way to detonate the improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, that increasingly are used by opponents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06111/683981-115.stm
By Cindi Lash, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 21, 2006
FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Zipping over the pavement on saucer-sized black wheels, the remote-controlled truck at first glance appears to be a souped-up version of a battery-powered sidewalk toy.
But by next week, hundreds of these metal-sheathed, camera-equipped robots will be hitting the ground in Iraq, where U.S. soldiers will use them to destroy lethal improvised explosive devices from a distance.
The remote-controlled BomBot, aims to provide U.S. forces with a safer, more cost-effective way to detonate the improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, that increasingly are used by opponents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06111/683981-115.stm
