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Ingenious Device lets Robots See Over Walls

Imagine a little box just 4 inches tall squirting out a rigid mast 8 feet straight up!    A configuration is available that will allow a larger unit that can lift 200lbs 20 feet.  The unit is from GeoSystems Inc and is called a Situational Awareness Mast (SAM).  Travis Deyle at Hizook brings several sources together [...]

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India Police Get Robot Help in Fighting Terror

The Indian police department got approval to purchase the robot in April of 2008 but “it was not before the Jaipur serial blasts [in May] that the police really started the process of buying it.”    The purchase of the “US-made robot” (iRobot?) will clearly reduce the risk to the police who defuse discovered bombs.

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