It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. The major hurdle is going to be financial.

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We can't always take every piece of equipment we have off-road, but we can take the MARCBOT off-road, ... Out vehicles have the potential to get stuck if we take them into too-rough terrain, and that poses a whole new problem of exposing ourselves while we try to get the vehicle un-stuck.

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I can definitely see these robots having a much more instrumental role in this and the following years than they did at the beginning of the conflict, due to the fact that a lot of the improvised explosive devices are on the small secondary streets.

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Say there was a suspicious looking bag 60 meters off of the road. It could be a bomb or a small weapons cache, ... Our best option is to send the MARCBOT out there to check it out. For all of these reasons I think the MARCBOT is a valuable piece of equipment for us to have.

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If units came upon a suspicious looking object, they could check it out with the MARCBOT. It would save time for the Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams, because they wouldn't have to come out to confirm or deny the object. The MARCBOT could do that.

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