<p>Over the past three years, thousands of American soldiers in Iraq have been horribly injured or killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). At Florida State University, researcher Emmanuel G. Collins is working on new technologies that could reduce the carnage.</p>
<p>The explosives, placed near or buried under roadways and often detonated by remote control, frequently target U.S. military vehicles and convoysoften with deadly success. Collins, the John H. Seely Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering, envisions the creation of an unmanned ground vehicle that could patrol large areas without putting U.S. soldiers in harm's way.</p>
<p>See: <a href="http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/06/01/unmanned.vehicle/%5B/url%5D">http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/06/01/unmanned.vehicle/</a></p>