James Duncan
James Duncan
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It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. The major hurdle is going to be financial.
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I can definitely see these robots having a much more instrumental role in this and the following years than they did at the beginning of the conflict, due to the fact that a lot of the improvised explosive devices are on the small secondary streets,
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Say there was a suspicious looking bag 60 meters off of the road. It could be a bomb or a small weapons cache, ... Our best option is to send the MARCBOT out there to check it out. For all of these reasons I think the MARCBOT is a valuable piece of equipment for us to have.
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We can't always take every piece of equipment we have off-road, but we can take the MARCBOT off-road, ... Out vehicles have the potential to get stuck if we take them into too-rough terrain, and that poses a whole new problem of exposing ourselves while we try to get the vehicle un-stuck.