Mongoose and robot duo sniff out landmines

[FreeTh1nk3r]

sorry but the robot looks terribly inefficient

[jedihunter176]

THAT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE AN IGUANA

[iTys206]

@jedihunter176 They didn't say look like they said walk like. Use your ears more bud.

[Loop043]

this is going to be the plot for the next terminator movie

[ChaoYun]

Poor mongoose...

[slotstik]

More like slowbot.

[GaiusICaesar]

loooool at the robot. before all the mines are found, we'll all be dead anyway xD

[XxBlazyxX]

ehm xD

[TheMrBlinx]

That robot is as lame as it gets. Whoever got paid for that should be punished instead.

[MrBleachSama]

um those wherent engineers those where africans with two sticks poking aat a mongoose in a cage

[blowmebarny]

good idea with the robot but if im correct not all landimines can be detected by a metle detector

[me1ne]

Is that the future? Mindwashed, trained animals controlling huge robots?

But in a way we already have that, don't we.

Anyway, crazy stuff.

[davyx1]

the mongoose does all the work the robot is slower than a snail

[CashClock]

Good replacement for the dog anyway. I think this is great.

[batameez913]

stupid robot stop going so slow! ur slowing the mongoose down!

[Creocsial]

Are you seriously this stupid? No, seriously. Did you really think your background would change? If so, Please kill yourself. You'll raise the average IQ of the planet by 2 points.

[magicianZP]

lol dude its a joke just com down

[SpacePigeon5]

If its a joke then why are neither of us finding it funny? It just whows how much of a dumbass you really are for falling for that crap. Also, holding your breathe for about 10 hours should just about do the trick.

[loriziell]

also learn to count

1

2

3

4

3

iq levels failing, failing, failed

[McGuirk1n]

I dont like it cause there's still a slight chance of a cute little snake killin mongoose to get blown to hell

[monypril]

when that mongoose sniffs out a whole jungle full of rare species with mines everywhere on the ground hel be a hero.

[TKSnatch]

This is stupid and completely ineffective, when you clear mines its over vast expanses of land - that thing is way to slow, how ridiculous did that look, come on people get real.

[mlarosa25]

well keep in mind in world war 2 we trying to figure out a way to turn bats into flying incendiary bombs, and actually found a way to do it. reality is crazier than fiction

[orelero]

they did this with dolphins during Vietnam war :(

[iloveallecchianime]

:)  .

[hirushan]

GO SRI LANKA....

[ballexman]

hehehe... "teamed up" and "guiding"? Sounds more like the machine pushes the shit-scared rodent into the minefield. But hey. I'd rather see the mongoose go ka-boom than a human being.

[creon5]

looks like it takes 10 years to move a meter lol by the time this things gone over a mine field, the war would be over and the mongoose would have died from old age.

[hypnonewt]

poor mongoose forever trapped to be a landmine siffer :( just not right.

[DerQ85]

KABOOOOOM MOMGOOSEMUSH!

C'mon, do you prefer a squished Mongoose to a demolished leg of a child!

Go and lick your californian toad!

[itsTonomya]

cool

[ParaglidingManiac]

I would liek to see, how marines would wait about a week for these stupid things to watch for mines :D it's gonna be much easier to just throw a grenade and shoot the field, than send this peace of crap.

[fungus789]

This duo is not intended for the battlefield; it's designed to demine the millions of active land mines still in place from over a century of past wars. Thousands of civilians all over the world are killed annually from these remaining mines, so an innovative approach like this could hasten the global demining effort. For the most part, land mines have been banned from military use worldwide since the Ottawa Treaty of 1997, so demining is now more of a humanitarian issue than a military one.

[Hippiemoose911]

you got a point there :)

[rdzombie]

looks slow as piss

[magicmind0]

rachet and clank

[zocknot]

its far more efficient and faster to send little children or dogs running across minefields.

[sparten117teamalpha]

hell yeah!!!

[dissinitbig]

lol! made my day

[Buzardero]

agree with the little childrens part (dogs r too cute)

[VoiceUrself]

Seen how slow that robot goes

[JohnDeBunkTest]

They should arrest all the CEO's of companies making land mines and make them walk blindfolded through a minefield. Our world land mine problem could be quickly solved.

Meanwhile, the mongoose is doing a great job.

[bramcorleone]

We had some scandals of some pension funds in the Netherlands that had invested in land mines and cluster bombs. It's a shame!

[niertap]

@JohnDeBunkTest

Good luck getting past all those land mines. Lol also good luck making the CEOs do that. They're probably people like the president of china and russia.

[ladangelo202]

@JohnDeBunkTest ceos of companies making land mines they are needed in military campaigns asked for and purchased ........ how is the companies fault they dont kill people they provide a service

[urquiza78]

When i heard of this story i expected a dalek like combination wid a mongoose at the controls, yet no, the little blighter's on a lead! seems happy enough though keep up the good work.

[Batou04]

Damnit! When I read the description in the box I was hoping "Combining a mongoose and a robot" meant a cyborg mongoose. I'm so disappointed.

[melloki76]

Surely an army of mecha-mongoose warriors would take over the world!

[sparten117teamalpha]

me 2

[neroil]

I want a mongoose :D

[wii2050]

Animal slave labour.

[Avalikia]

I don't know about that. The mongoose has got to be getting something out of it or it would have no particular reason to do what it's been trained to do. It probably gets a lot of treats. If it didn't feel like that was enough compensation, then it wouldn't bother doing it's job, would it?

[celeran1]

yea your very write but he was just joking

[hoglymogly]

Would you rather a human be put at risk?

[finkleclaw]

It's great that there are people like out out there to write these great insightful comments. Domesticated animals have been of utility to humans for millennia. I'm not saying it's right, but the precedent has been set and there are many worse, crueler examples of animal use and misuse. Someone is making real innovations that may help protect human and animal life, and all you can do is criticize their methods on some irrelevant technicality.

That's shortsighted and ignorant.

[Sindeslroyer]

i agree to an extent, but the mongoose is not a domesticated animal.

[hartnell114]

Mongoose is Not going to be happy.

[balderdash707]

Like Avalkia said, he probably gets lots of treats in the training process, and like the video said, the land mines won't kill him.