Hazardous materials sensing robot

[0048]Aside from the preferred embodiment or embodiments disclosed below, this invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or being carried out in various ways. Thus, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangements of components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. If only one embodiment is described herein, the claims hereof are not to be limited to that embodiment. Moreover, the claims hereof are not to be read restrictively unless there is clear and convincing evidence manifesting a certain exclusion, restriction, or disclaimer.

[0049]The subject invention, in one embodiment, includes robot platform 12, FIG. 1 and universal mounting tray 14 thereon for mounting a plurality of sensors 16a-16c. Electronic interface unit 18 receives and processes the outputs of each sensor. There is a communication link between robot 12 and operator control unit 22 where