570News - Jeff Allan

On Friday April 4th I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing a local young person who, along with his team,  has developed a robot that can detect landmines! This is great news for the world in general. Imagine a robotic “tool” rather than a human “tool” detecting and defusing landmines around the world. This technology will not only save the lives of our soldiers in Afghanistan, and other world hot spots; it will save the lives of children, men, women, and livestock alike.  There are as many as one hundred million landmines buried around the world. It costs as much as twelve hundred dollars a mine to get rid of them the old fashioned human way; the robotic way is about five hundred dollars without the potential for loss of life. Hats off to Mathew Rendall and his team from the University of Waterloo who have developed this life saving technology. If they can make it work on a grand scale, we may be able to put the people who make artificial limbs out of business and that would be a good thing! I’m nominating this team for a Nobel Peace Prize in advance, because I believe this may be one of the greatest gifts from science to man in over one hundred years.

                                                             Jeff Allan