“Metal detecting boy” design of a robot that will search bombs instead of soldiers

“Metal detecting boy” design of a robot that will search bombs instead of soldiers

Hovhannes Sargsyan, right before the conscription, got an assignment from the center of Armenian National Engineering Laboratories ANEL of National Polytechnic University of Armenia to design a robot after finishing his internship. Hovhannes was determined to design a demining robot that will search bombs and demine it instead of people. 

The robot being designed and created by Hovhannes is mainly similar to the metal detector: it finds metallic things 15 cm deep. The robot still has no name and as Hovhannes initially worked on the project with his two friends, so it is called by their names.   

Prototype of the robot is ready and Hovhannes hopes to improve the robot before his army conscription. The new version will not only be able to find the bombs but demine it as well. Hovhannes tells that the new version of the robot will also have a hand-manipulator that will locate a small exploder on the bomb, will leave till safe distance and will make it explode from the distance.  

If bombs are big in number, then the controlling person will explode them all simultaneously.

 The current version of the robot is telecontrolled via Bluetooth, but the new version as Hovhannes highlights, will be controlled by radiowaves: this time, the operator will be about 2 kilometers far and not 25 meters far as is in this case.