Physicists have now built a low-cost land mine detection system using off-the-shelf components – including some sourced from online auction sites.

A prototype MRead mine-detection device CSIRO While metal detectors are useful for detecting land mines, they can be fooled by buried metallic debris … plus some mines don't contain any metal.

The world is filled with problems of all different types. For millions of people around the world, one of the biggest problems is land mines. These mines are installed by the thousands during wars, ...

A mine can be made for just $3, but removing one can cost up to $1,000. Land mine removal usually relies on humans finding them with handheld metal detectors, which is dangerous, time-consuming ...

In one use case that I’d like to take a closer look at today, generative AI is being used for synthetic training data to dramatically improve the accuracy of drone-based land mine detection.

Future Tech: Land Mine Detection Dogs can smell land mines, but humans cannot. Sensitive new chemical sniffers could fix that. By Melissa Mertl. Sep 1, 2001 5:00 AM Apr 26, 2023 1:23 PM. Newsletter.

The Quadcopter Mines Detector uses a metal detector to find land mines as it flies above them. Igor Klymenko. In February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, 17-year-old Igor Klymenko was forced to ...

Draganfly Launches UAS adoption, innovation, and research operations in Spring Branch, Texas Los Angeles, CA., Dec. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO) (CSE: DPRO) (FSE: 3U8 ...

According to [Joanna Goodrich] in IEEE Spectrum, prior to World War II, soldiers who wanted to find land mines, simply poked at the ground with pointed sticks or bayonets. As you might expect ...

Anti-Personsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO), a social enterprise based in Tanzania, is working in Cambodia with Hero Rats, mice trained to clear landmines. Anthropologist Darcie ...

By contrast, older models of mine detection robots lacked the technology packed into Anthrax — particularly the A.I. software — and were clunky, sporting only a single camera and moving on ...

GREENWICH — Three cloth napkins sat on Central Middle School’s stage Thursday. An inactive land mine and satchel of gunpowder rested under one of the napkins. Rico Cosby, a mine detection dog ...