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Mobile Mine Detecting Robot

When robots get smart

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Welcome to our web site!

On this home page, we'll introduce our graduation project which aims to use an advanced mobile robot in detecting land mines.

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Landmines by the Numbers:      

  • 33 billion - Cost in U.S. dollars to remove every mine in the world, if no others are planted
  • 250 million - Stockpiled landmines worldwide
  • 110 million - Landmines in the ground worldwide
  • 2.5 million - New landmines laid each year
  • 1 million - People killed or maimed by anti-personnel mines since 1975
  • 22 million - Landmines  buried in Egyptian deserts
  • 26,000 - People killed or maimed annually by landmines
  • 1,000 - Cost in U.S. dollars to remove one landmine
  • 350 - Minimum number of different types of landmines
  • 70 - Number of people killed or injured daily by landmines
  • 3 - Cost in U.S. dollars of a cheap landmine

 

SHAMS at JStamp website

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Here is the picture of the first prototype of Shams (Shams_01)

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SHAMS Work-Team * Cairo * *  Egypt *
Jul-2002