From The Danger Room:The military's most popular bomb-disposal robot is being redesigned for a new mission. Since 9/11, the U.S. armed forces have sent 2,500 Talon machines overseas -- mostly to Iraq -- to help get rid of improvised explosives.
But in Afghanistan, where the fighting has intensified, unexploded Soviet mines left over from the invasion and the civil wars that followed, pose a new threat. Last year, more than 600 people were killed or wounded by the abandoned ordnance.
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