Amid increasing terror attacks at home and abroad, a Chinese firm has introduced three robots specialising in reconnaissance, armed attack and moving and defusing a bomb.
The toy-sized robots which made their debut at the 2015 World Robot Conference here can coordinate with each other on the battlefield.
The scout, or reconnaissance robot, is responsible for field detection through camera or sensor, Wu Yanpeng, an engineer at HIT Robot Group in northeast China’s Harbin city, developer of the robots said.
When the scout detects or senses something suspicious such as poisonous gas, dangerous chemicals and explosives, the information is transmitted back to headquarters for further analysis, Wu told state-run Xinhua news agency.
Based on the analysis of the type of explosives and need for evacuation, the small explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robot and the armed attack robot will start their missions. The small EOD robot is tasked with moving and defusing the bomb. If the complexity is beyond the robot’s capabilities, then bomb experts in the office have to come up with a proper solution, Wu said.