New hi-tech robot dogs detect and defuse bomb threats

Footage shows the new bomb-defusing robotic canines opening doors, and firing at bomb threats.

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00:00This week, we have been running a demonstration for UK defence stakeholders to showcase current

00:15and next generation autonomy and robotics for EOD use.

00:21This trial is improving the Army's capability for future use by incorporating new robotics

00:26that are currently not in service, so the use of drones and quadrupeds, to ensure that

00:31we can remove the operator out of risk, out of harm's way, so that we can actually render

00:35threats safe without having to send an operator in the line of fire.

00:42Whenever there is an EOD task, lives are at risk.

00:44DSL's research saves lives by the work we do today, like this, over this week.

00:49So we're doing a demonstration of facilitating a two-way conversation between ourselves,

00:54the contractors, and users and operators, and this conversation allows us to understand

00:58challenges that the operators face, and it allows us to answer those challenges with solutions.

01:06EOD technology needs to evolve at a rapid pace.

01:10The I in IED is improvised, so no two bombs are ever the same, so we have to have the

01:15technology to keep pace with the evolving threats that we face from around the world.

01:21EOD is at the forefront of enabling us to send tools, robots, cameras, down to the target,

01:28so that we can minimise the amount of time that service personnel actually expose themselves to risk.

01:36Within the EOD sphere, you've got an ever-emerging threat pattern.

01:39It's always changing.

01:40Yes, there are fundamental trends.

01:42We need to beat those trends.

01:43We need to beat the threats that are ever-emerging, and we need to be that one step ahead.