Chem-Sniffing Robots Prepped for Iraq, A-Stan

The Army’s older bomb-spotting robots are a little too flimsy, and too hard to control, to use in Iraq any more. So the military has given the ‘bots new chemical-sniffing gear — and a new mission: to help clean up hazardous sites in Iraq and Afghanistan. The CUGV (”Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Unmanned Ground Vehicle”) detects “ammonia, chlorine, carbon monoxide, oxygen levels, lower explosive limits, volatile organic compounds, gamma radiation rate and dose rate, temperatur
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