Robot and robotechnology news
01.01.1970 //Robot Fido will determine explosive on the smell.
The mines disguised on the road are the basic culprits of deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. In order to fight with this military department it decided to resort to the new robots, which can search for dangerous devices on the smell. This first model will become Fido, equipped with the built-in sensor of explosive. Robot prepared company iRobot from Massachusetts, well-known producer of the robotized apparatuses. Soon first party of hundred such models will arrive to Iraq. Besides the sensor the robot possesses camera, and also 2-meter hand, thanks to which it can search for bomb inside the automobile, and also under the chassis. Fido is the usovershenstvovannym version PackBot, the 24- kilogram robot, equipped with cameras. Company does not thus far reveal information, how it precisely works from the considerations of secrecy.