
The Navy will soon begin trying out its new man-portable, bomb-disposing robot, the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System (AEODRS) Increment 1, according to a service official.AEODRS Increment I “just went through contractor testing, and we’ll be getting our production-representative models in the next few months to be able to go out and do some testing with the system,” said Capt. Aaron Peters, a program manager in Naval Sea Systems Command’s Expeditionary Missions Program Office.The system, whose prime contractor is…