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lukantoday at 6:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can drones sniff explosives? I think that would be very expensive, they can have metal detectors, and mark suspicious sites for someone (or something, like a different digging drone) else to check.

But rats can sniff explosives and do so succesfully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magawa


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ultratalktoday at 8:32 AM

> He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats

How does that work for a rat? Sounds interesting.

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TiredOfLifetoday at 8:44 AM

The flying ones can use thermal cameras. The mines and surrounding areas change temperature differently.

Then the ground ones do the actual demining.

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