Engineers from the US Army Research Laboratory, West Point Military Academy and the Counter Explosives Hazards Center are conducting research into training rats to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and mines.
The Army awarded Barron Associates a contract under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programme to produce and test a cost effective solution dubbed Rugged Automated Training System (RATS) for training the rats.
Micheline Strand, chief of the Life Sciences Division at the Army Research Office, said if the Army's effort proved inexpensive and successful, it could generate new opportunities for using rats to detect mines or even humans buried in earthquake rubble.
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The Army awarded Barron Associates a contract under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programme to produce and test a cost effective solution dubbed Rugged Automated Training System (RATS) for training the rats.
Micheline Strand, chief of the Life Sciences Division at the Army Research Office, said if the Army's effort proved inexpensive and successful, it could generate new opportunities for using rats to detect mines or even humans buried in earthquake rubble.
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