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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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At that rate, it would take more than 500 million person-hours to manually search imagery covering all of Ukraine’s suspected contaminated land for EO. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos. In light of those conversations, we developed a user-friendly Web application called SpotlightAI.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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In an online discussion about EOD support robots, one soldier wrote, “Those little bastards can develop a personality, and they save so many lives.” Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. An infantryman responded by admitting, “We liked those EOD robots.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

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Adventures with public transport to EXPO 2020 Dubai Since my return in 2019, I’ve become an “ inspiring speaker ,” and in 2022, I received an invitation to speak at EXPO 2020 in Dubai. To see nothing but desert for miles as a Dutch person? Most people would hop on a plane without a second thought, but not me.