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Companies Work to Save Bomb-Clearing Robots

By Sharon WeinbergerSep 1st 2010 – 6:16PM
Jason Dean, Conceptual Robotics

Jason Dean, Conceptual Robotics

(Sept. 1) -- When improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, became the weapon of choice in the early days of the Iraq war, the Pentagon rushed electronic jammers to the field to save soldiers' lives by disrupting the wireless signals that often triggered the deadly roadside bombs. The military also began sending robots...

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