When soldiers came across roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, instead of putting on a bomb suit and going out and poking with a stick, as they used to do up until about 2002, they now send the robot out.
以前，当士兵们在伊拉克和阿富汗遇到路边炸弹时， 他们会穿上防爆衣并后退，然后用小棍儿去捅炸弹， 在2002年以前他们就是这么干的， 现在，他们会让机器人去搞定。