MCLEAN, Va. , Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- QinetiQ North America, a global developer of innovative technology solutions for national defense, today announced that its Technology Solutions Group subsidiary ...

Several thousand people -- many of them children -- are killed each year by the estimated 110 million land mines that lie hidden in 68 countries throughout the world. Humanitarian mine-clearing ...

The United Nations says over 2,000 people are killed or maimed by landmine explosions monthly. With this statistic in mind, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory physicist Carl Nelson posed a ...

Researchers pick up good vibrations to locate buried mines. Exciting a land mine may not sound like a good idea, but developers of the Seismic Landmine Detection System are doing just that. A group of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Johns Hopkins University engineering students recently completed a remote-controlled robot that can find land mines in rugged terrain and mark their location by spraying paint. “I ...

Russia's invasion has turned Ukraine into the most heavily mined country in the world. Cleaning it up will take decades.

Fans of the movie Prometheus will recall the probes that were sent into the alien structure, autonomously flying through it to create a 3D map of its interior. Well, something kind of similar is now ...

As hopes dim for 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine, a U.S. robotics expert isn't surprised that an army bomb-disposal robot short-circuited today when it hit water just 1,800 feet into the ...

Four Johns Hopkins undergraduate engineering students have designed and built a remote-controlled robotic vehicle to find deadly land mines in rugged terrain and mark their location with a spray of ...