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

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> 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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But he will save lives.

Hear that whooshing noise? It’s not just a drone.

Many antipersonal mines don't use metal.

It is a drone with metal scanner.

I wish we could just ban land mines forever.

The bad guys don't care about bans.

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

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

They won’t like this at the DMDC.

Oh boy do I have some news for you..