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Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the friendly-neighborhood-sacrificial-robot dept.

hdtv writes "Reuters is running a story that talks about the emotional bonds that US soldiers develop with the robots in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. The company, most famous on the US market for its Roomba vacuum cleaner, provided '300 PackBot Tactical Mobile Robots deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to open doors in urban combat, lay fiber-optic cable, defuse bombs and perform other hazardous duties previously done by humans alone.'"

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  1. And THANK YOU! by _PimpDaddy7_ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dear Dave,

    As an American, I want to personally thank YOU for your service to this country.