The backpack-size remote-controlled vehicle can manoeuvre through drains and narrow tunnels to seek out suspicious items. - The Straits Times/ANN
SINGAPORE, July 24 (The Straits Times/ANN): There is a new participant in this year's National Day festivities, but spectators are unlikely to see it even as they are kept safe by it.
It is one of two devices new to the police force - a four-wheeled remote-controlled robot that can sniff out bombs, security threats and suspicious objects - but its work is done almost exclusively underground in drains.
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