New Delhi, Feb. 27: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will soon use robots designed by IIT Bombay to detect and defuse explosives in Maoist-infested areas. This will add more teeth to our operations," said K. Durga Prasad, the CRPF chief. Sources said the robots, around 4 to 7 feet high, could be controlled from a distance of 10 feet. The robots will take only a few minutes to scan a suspected area or location and confirm if the patch is mined with explosives. But sources said the Maoists still held sway over large swathes of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh.

Source: The Telegraph February 27, 2017 22:07 UTC