Using millimeter wave technology, which the TSA says emits 10, 000 times less radio frequency than a cell phone, the machine scans a traveler and a robotic image is generated that allows security personnel to detect potential threats -- and, some fear, more -- beneath a person's clothes.
The company, which employs four full-time and one part-time staff, was founded in 1999 and already supplies their robotic instruments to The Anthony Nolan Trust, the United Kingdom's largest stem cell register.