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Terrorist, timed scenarios challenge bomb squads at Sandia’s Robot Rodeo
May 13, 2019, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bomb squad teams from New Mexico and beyond are converging at Sandia National Laboratories for a five-day Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise where emergency preparedness skills will be put to the test.Twelve challenges for 10 military and civilian team…
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Sandia’s Robot Rodeo provides training for bomb squads
June 8, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] One robotics team catches a “hazardous” liquid in an orange bucket while maneuvering around debris and working with another robot trying to stop the leak by turning three valves during the 2017 Robot Rodeo at Sandia National…
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Foreground: Robot holding an orange bucket. Background: Puddle of water and a robot by some pipes. General messy workshop space around.

X-ray vision: Bomb techs strengthen their hand with Sandia’s XTK software
September 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the chaos that followed the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, bomb squads scanned packages at the scene for explosive devices. Two homemade pressure cooker bombs had killed three people and injured more than 250, and techs quickly had to determine if more were waiting...
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