Kevin Menear is the Director of R&D for Mechanical Systems at MineWerks. MineWerks was founded by a team of students at RPI dedicated to the eradication of such buried explosives as landmines and roadside bombs.
MineWerks' detection technology is being developed at a time when over 2,000 people are being killed or maimed by buried landmines and other explosives each month. Competing technologies are far too expensive, time-consuming, and hazardous to personnel on the ground to be capable of addressing the worldwide threat of unexploded ordinances in a meaningful way.
Kevin Menear is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Some of the current solutions, there are three distinct categories. The main category is direct detonation of the land mines which are usually for military purposes. These consist of machines like the Aardvark, which is basically like a large tank. The tank will roll along the mine field and in f...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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