{"id":16208,"date":"2017-01-11T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T09:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16208"},"modified":"2017-01-11T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T10:00:59","slug":"robotic-raspberry-pi-driven-bomb-squad-for-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16208","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Raspberry Pi-driven bomb squad for developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: Dr. Garrett M. Clayton<\/p><\/div>\n

A team from\u00a0Villanova University<\/a>, Philadelphia, comprised of four faculty and more than twenty-five students, has developed a ‘bomb squad’ robot. The robot is intended to be used in developing countries to deal with explosive devices and uses a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. The boards, together with plenty of other hardware, drive four wheels, a robot arm and a water cannon that can be used to detach a fuse from the explosives on\u00a0a device. The whole robot is expected to come in around $10,000, which is a fraction of the cost of commercial products, generally costing between $50k-$100k.<\/p>\n

It’s taken them just over three years to get to this point, and that has included a field test in Cambodia. When starting out, they had four primary objectives (which have been satisfied):<\/p>\n