This Robot Collects Fingerprints

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."

Comments

Yergblerghas

[Anonymous Coward]

Mounted on an ordinary robot

Great, the T-1000 series try to extinguish humanity by smothering us with Super Glue fumes.

Christmas presents

[r_glen]

Squirt gun - age 7
Remote control vehicle - age 10
Camera - age 14

Dammit, I could have invented this thing 10 years ago!

Just what we need...

[Anonymous Coward]

...a glue-sniffing robot. I can already see hordes of them loitering on street corners in dingy Slipknot t-shirts pestering me for change.

But..

[BorkBorkBork6000]

Wouldn't it be much cheaper to hire the homeless or students to take the prints?

Re:Remote Controlled Device not robot

[grub]

Why are the more esoteric remote controlled devices called robots?

I call my RealDoll "Becky".

Oh no! My $250,000 finger print robot

[blueZ3]

glued itself to the bomb!