Defence Science - HITS Retrieving An Object

The Quanser / NRC / DRDC HITS project : Haptics-based Immersive Telepresence System was the ultimate EOD / IED / UXO robot for advanced EOD operator control that can perform human tasks like pulling a wire remotely from a command station anywhere on Earth.

EOD - Explosives Ordnace Disposal
IED - Improvised Explosives Device
UXO - UneXploded Ordnance

Started in 2009 it demonstrated a world's first EOD robot to the NATO EOD COE in Trencin in 2014. Holland went on to copy it.

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
COE - Centre of Excellence