A U.S. Navy technician with Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 4 (EODMU-4) Detachment 10 prepares a robot to take part in an improvised explosive device (IED) training exercise. Robots are being ...

Army orders more robots for IED disposal BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has contracted iRobot Corp. for the company to deliver its PackBot improvised explosive device threat ...

Robots also allow Soldiers to continue their missions smoothly, because positive identification of IEDs helps Explosives Ordnance Disposal prioritize known IED locations and not spend time ...

The US Army is using robots to reduce the dangers to Explosive Ordnance Disposal in Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq January 13, 2005 - Whenever an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician heads downrange ...

The pilot study involved a number of scenarios where a robot was required to perform tasks such as opening and closing doors, ...

Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate have rapidly prototyped, developed, and delivered low-cost expendable robots to disable and dispose of ...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- The improvised explosive device has proven to be an effective albeit crude method of attack against military forces in Afghanistan. Robots to help TF Muleskinner ...

A Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal technician prepares to deploy a device that will detonate a buried improvised explosive near Camp Fallujah, Iraq, in November of 2005. (U.S. Marine Corps ...

Third Bomb Blast Rocks New York Area: Police Robot Detonates IED at New Jersey Train Station A two men found the backpack on top of and picked it up about 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

December 1,2008: A team of Filipino engineers designed and built a bomb disposal robot that costs $6,100. The team was quite proud of this, because similar American devices cost up to a several ...

A new bomb disposal robot developed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is blurring the line between advanced prosthetics and robotics. Rather than building arms and ...