Robot vendors are searching for new application areas for industrial robots outside the shop floor. This video, shot during ABB Robotics Technology Days on April 21, 2010, in Auburn Hills, Mich., shows an ABB experimental platform using a truck-mounted ABB robot for improvised explosive disposal. Will Eakins, senior technical engineer at the ABB U.S. Corporate Research Center, describes the action to Wes Iversen, Automation World Managing Editor.
