 The moment service members step out of their armored vehicles outside the wire, they are extremely vulnerable to small arms fire, snipers and improvised explosive devices. But new technology is helping to minimize that risk. Now they can just use the robot because each robot has different cameras on it so they can drive up on it, use the camera to either zoom in on it, get right on top of it. If there's anything in the way they can use a manipulator to move it out of the way to see if it's actually just debris or if it's a possible IED, if you just watch this. Robert Lukeke is a robotics technician at Bogram Airfield, Afghanistan. He helps embed robots into convoys and trans soldiers making the process of inspecting potential threats safer for the troops. Instead of sending a soldier out there, they're sending a robot so if it does, if there is danger it's going to see the robot, it's going to blow the robot up so essentially when you go out with your 13 man crew or whatever it is you're going to come