A
team of scientists of the Moratuwa University led by Dr. Trishantha
Nanayakkara has invented a robot, which it has named ‘MURALI’, to
detect landmines under a project funded by the National Science
Foundation. The robot is more reliable than the existing landmine
detection systems and is capable of leading a colony of landmine
detecting robots, Nilusha Hemasiri representative of the NSF told The
Island yesterday (1).The NSF funded the
research programme on developing a low cost robot for humanitarian
de-mining. The research has demonstrated that the typical commercially
available metal detectors ...
