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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-Israeli-start-up-clearing-minefields-with-artificial-intelligence-599755

Israeli Firm Clears Minefields with Artificial Intelligence

(Jerusalem Post) Eytan Halon - 62 countries are known to have land mine contamination. At the current rate of mine clearance, some estimate it will take over 200 years to clear the world, at a cost of over $100 billion. A start-up founded by two former officers from the IDF Combat Engineering Corps offers a new approach to mine clearance based on artificial intelligence and autonomous robots. Established by Itzik Malka and Nir Cohen, 4M Analytics provides a "minefields location intelligence solution" which the company says can enable high-paced mine clearance at a lower cost and with lower risk than existing solutions. Data is collected by remote sensing based on multifaceted technological sensors including LIDAR, hyper-spectral, ground-penetrating radar, electromagnet, ultrasound and thermal imaging.

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