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This Robot Collects Fingerprints

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-autographs-too dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "When police officers found suspicious packages today in an airport or a train station, they destroyed them immediately, along with potential fingerprints on them. A new robotic device, dubbed RAFFE (short for "Robot Accessory for Fuming Fingerprint Evidence), developed by scientists from the University of Toronto (U of T) and the University of Calgary, offers a solution to this problem. Mounted on an ordinary robot, it will reveal fingerprints by releasing Super Glue on the object. Then it will take pictures of these fingerprints. The Calgary Police Service is already using RAFFE for field tests. This overview contains more details and extra references."

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  1. It also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eats old people's medicine! I'm glad I have Old Glory Insurance.

  2. Re:Proud Canadian by Thng · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about CSI:Moose Jaw?

  3. Re:Isn't there a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm trying to decide if you're joking and the person who modded you up is a complete idiot or if you're both complete idiots.

  4. This is stupid! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do we have the robots gluing our lost packages? The robots should be gluing the terrorists! If we had glued together the hijackers, they would have never fit into the cockpits and 9/11 would never have happened. It also makes the war on terrorism less intrusive to our civil liberties, as the military and law enforcement could focus solely on people that have been glued together, leaving the innocent travels unhindered.