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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."

8 of 188 comments (clear)

  1. semen stains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Will the semen stains on the robot also be analyzed?

  2. fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you

  3. Wouldn't it be cheaper to use helper monkeys? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps feces could be used as a substitute for superglue?

  4. Re:Super by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ahhh, you must have had vaseline on your cock, or else you would have mentioned your cock in that sticky situation.

    Anyway, acetone (nail polish remover) will dissolve the glue.

  5. Sweet gibbering Jesus! Now you've done it!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    If I install a Fleshlight in my mobile bomb-fingerprinting robot, does that mean I will end up spending my next vacation in sunny club GITMO?!!!!

    And I hear that Ninnle Linux STILL doesn't have FireWire drivers for it!!!!

  6. Re:Remote Controlled Device not robot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, "lowlevel mechanical employees" are the 9-fingered, high school drop-outs that punch the buttons that live under the mob-like protection of the UAW.

  7. in soviet russia... by moquist · · Score: -1, Troll

    the prince finger you.

  8. Think by dolo666 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't be a photard, dude, and think for a second about what you're saying before looking stupid. What if we had one of these robots sniff a bomb from the mid-90s, and this fingerprint evidence cracked open a terrorist cell in the USA? And just what if it was the terrorist cell that spearheaded 9/11? Thousands of families would be safe and the two towers would be standing today, and all because of a few geeks from Toronto and Calgary.

    Even the smallest things like finger prints can prevent thousands of deaths.