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CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE Saving Lives 4 CHAPTER TWO Robots in the Military 12 CHAPTER THREE Small Robots 20 CHAPTER FOUR Large Robots 28 CHAPTER FIVE Flying Robots 34 Top Missions 42 Stop and Think 44 Glossary 46 Learn More 47 Index 48 About the Author 48
5 CHAPTER ONE SAVING LIVES During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s a machine called Scooby Doo showed the value of military robots Scooby Doo worked with US troops in an explosive ordnance disposal EOD team EOD teams work to disable roadside bombs called improvised explosive devices IEDs Those bombs have been a dangerous threat for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Troops practice climbing rubble with an iRobot Packbot 510 during a robotics class at Fort Irwin California
