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.
Quando i soldati individuano una bomba in Iraq o in Afghanistan, invece di mettere un giubbotto antiesplosivi e andare a stuzzicarla con un bastoncino, come si usava fare fino al 2002, ora mandano fuori il robot.