Andrew McGregor describes how war photography in eastern DR Congo exposed him to landmine victims and led him to write a short film about a rat and a robot guiding humans through minefields. Making the film produced an actual robot prototype that watches mine-sniffing rats and maps where they detect mines, and he outlines his organization Symbiobotics and a planned design challenge for landmine-clearing robotics.
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