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April 26, 2002
SPACEWAR
Detecting Hidden Targets With 'Smart' Robotic Sensors

File Photo: Already robot's such as Carnegie Mellon University's Nomad are undertaking complex search operations - in this case looking for meteorites on the Antarctic ice
Durha - Apr 25, 2002
 A vision of futuristic robotic aircraft and land vehicles that can sense and close in on targets hidden in trees, caves or bunkers is being explored by a new four-university research initiative led by Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. he hunt would begin over a wide area, using stationary and moving sensors that might scan for communications signals emanating from a bunker, or the different kinds of electromagnetic signatures put out by machinery, or the infrared waves emitted by a heated object. Another tool would be radar.
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