Daily Times

KARACHI: Six Dawood University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) students have designed a prototype robot that can effectively defuse bombs.

In an effort to find new ways to combat the menace of terrorism in the country, a group of talented students coming up with an unique idea designed and built a machine man or also known as prototype robot.

The group of six students of DUET’s Computer System Engineering Department (CSED), worked more than six months to design a robot, which will defuse the bombs.

The robot is named as “Leap Go” and this unique machine was awarded second prize in Talent Expo Contest held last month at NED University, where more than 17 universities participated.

“Bomb disposal is a risky work that sometimes takes human life, therefore, we thought to invent something that may save human lives,” Faraz Hussain, a student of CSED told Daily Times.

He was part of the team of students who have designed such a unique robot. He said that if the students are supported by government, they can make these robots on commercial basis, which can be used by law enforcers, police and especially Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), as they still manually examine boobs, but with the help of this robot, they can examine and even dispose-off explosives from distant location.

“The robot designed with leap motion sensors and it can walk like a man and defuse the bomb in real time,” engineer Abdul Munaf, a teacher of CSED told Daily Times.

The group comprises on Faraz Husain, Nimra Ghazal, Nimra Parviz , Saqib Iqbal and Khadim Hussain and were supervised by teachers engineer Adbul Munaf, engineer Abdul Manan and Fahad Khan claimed that modern countries have already developed much advanced robotic technology, which is very expensive. “But we can develop it locally in cheaper price if we are supported,” Hussain added.

The group has applied for funding to Information, Communication Technologies Research and Development (ICTR&D), a funding organization working under the Federal Ministry of Information Technology, which mostly provides funds for such projects, but they rejected this project. “If we get funding from ICTR&D, we can produce this on commercial basis,” said Nimra Ghazal, one of the students.

“Higher Education Commission (HEC) should start a program to support technology based projects across the country for undergraduates,” demanded another student.