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Radcliffe Fellow Thrishantha Nanayakkara with a mine-detecting robot built by his advisee, Matthew Valente ’09.

Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard News Office

Scholar makes robots that detect land mines

On Oct. 10, 2005 — he remembers the date exactly — Thrishantha Nanayakkara was driving down a country road, headed for a science workshop at Jaffna Central College, a high school in the far north of Sri Lanka. The event was designed to distract potential child soldiers from the allure of war.

His cell phone rang. It was a government official, with a tip-off. “Turn back,” the caller said, in so many words, “or you will be killed.”

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