This is the robot used to destroy the killer of 5 American police last week

We now know which robot model was used to move an explosive device and destroy Micah Xavier Johnson, who killed five policemen and injured seven others in a shooting last week.

When the Dallas police department made a decision last week to use a bomb-removing robot to move an explosive device and destroy Johnson, they might have completely changed the development trend of police robots.

However, the general public is ignorant of the cause of the decision and the equipment used. On Monday morning, Dallas police tweeted that they used Northup Grumman Remotec Andros Mark V-A1 . In an interview with CNN and Sunday, police chief David Brown revealed important details about the reason for the decision and how the robot works.

El Centro College.Johnson was besieged and was hiding on the second floor.

Concerned that Johnson will harm more police, Brown told the team on Thursday that "use your creativity" to come up with a plan to stop the gun battle. The SWAT team's plan included attaching an explosive device to a mine-detection robot and detonating it in the place where Johnson was hiding, on the second floor of El Centro High School.

Remotec Andros Mark V-A1 Robot is used for 358kg, 1.8 meters high with an extended camera arm, can be remote controlled and carries up to 45.3kg. Brown said Johnson was hiding on the second floor after a brick wall. We now know that the robot used, invented in 2004, can climb stairs easily.

Brown said police had attached an explosive device to the robot's extended arm. The hand-grip part is not too complicated but it has the ability to rotate 360 ​​degrees, extend 30.5cm and create force up to 22.7kg.

Although we know that the explosion is strong enough to disable Johnson, we still don't know about explosives as well as whether the robot will suffer any damage. Detailed information about robots shows that they can extend their arms up to 1.7m almost 1.8m above the center of gravity.
Other features include color cameras with 72: 1 magnification, remote control over fiber optic networks, wireless radio signals or wires. It is not yet clear which method the Dallas police used.

Detailed information about robots shows that they can extend their arms up to 1.7m almost 1.8m above the center of gravity.

When the gun battle was over, companies that built bomb-removing robots such as Endeavor Robotics (which were not related to the incident) reported that police forces were very interested in these robots. For Northrop Grumman, the company did not comment.

Brown, though seemingly satisfied with the result and responded to CNN: "I agree with the decision and will make that decision again if I encounter a similar situation."