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ForkShirtUp t1_jd8vw9f wrote

Another robot taking away human jobs and automating labor. Tsk Tsk

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EvilIgor t1_jd936pg wrote

Many antipersonal mines don't use metal.

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Dare89d87 t1_jdbji7h wrote

Or such minimal metal they’re impossibly hard to find. We used ground penetrating radar from trucks and portable equipment. The minehound we were issued operated both GPR and Metal detection

Edit: and a lot of the antitank/anti vehicle mines can actually be triggered by introducing new metal into an area

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No_Telephone9938 t1_jdb7s7x wrote

How about equipping drones with ground penetration radar and train one of those fancy machine learning AI to teach them how mines "look like"?

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autotldr t1_jd8zesz wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)

> Now a novel combination of a metal detector and a drone with five degrees of freedom is under development at the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich.

> Unless you want to mount your metal detector on some kind of gimbal system, you need a drone that can translate its position without tilting, and happily, such a drone not only exists but is commercially available.

> The drone used in this research is made by a company called Voliro, and it's a tricopter that uses rotating thruster nacelles that move independently of the body of the drone.

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DJDarren t1_jdgl165 wrote

They won’t like this at the DMDC.

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