From: utzoo!laura
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Police Robot Query 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2693
Posted: Thu Dec 16 16:23:53 1982
Received: Thu Dec 16 16:23:53 1982
References: duke.2841 

	In Toronto I got to see a "police robot" operating by remote control,
pick up and remove a phoney bomb set up for the demonstration.  The actual
disarming was done by a human, but the robot cut about 4 wires, freeing the
bomb and moved it across the hall where the bomb expert was waiting.  The 
robot looked like  a cross between a daushand(sp) dog and a saw horse with one
"hand" which was actually a combination philips screwdriver, wire cutter,
pliers and lockwrench..all remotely operable.  the dog also had a television
lens which transmitted to the bomb squad a picture of exactly what it was
doing.

	This was three years ago, and a prototype model ... i dont know what
the current model looks like.  The prototype did remove a real bomb from a
secondary school in toronto and from the toronto airport 2 weeks before I
got to see the prototype.  (My mother taught at the school involved, which
is how I heard about it)

	The only people I heard that werent enthused about the dog were the
new recruits to the bomb squad training division who believed that
the darn thing was monitoring them all the time.  Senior police officials
denied that this was so but the cadets (especially the female cadets who had
found the dog in the washroom on at least one occasion) wouldnt believe
them.  

						Laura Creighton
						decvax!utzoo!laura