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One of the founders of a start-up company making a robot to venture into areas hazardous to humans says he hopes to build thousands of them in the future.

Oxford Dynamics, based in Harwell, Oxfordshire, has a £1m contract with the MoD to design, develop, and supply the robot.

The robot, known as Strider, is built to work amid chemical, biological or nuclear incidents, or where there is fatal radiation.

Mike Lawton, one of the company's directors, said: "Ultimately let’s be able to build 100, maybe 1,000, 10,000 Strider robots for the benefit of the world."