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The estimate from the Ukraine government
it's about 30% of the country has the potential
to be a danger zone, right?
That presents a big problem for the civilians, especially.
And so, what we bring to this is a test site
that is informed by decades of knowledge
of what the threats are, what the scenarios are,
how to design targets that the results will be
representative of the real world.
Modern mine warfare has very much evolved.
And it is unknown to most western countries and the west
because the notion
of the classic mine warfare is now absent
due to the rapid development of drones.
Accordingly, the rise of various improvised
explosive devices dropped from drones can be used
over quite a wide area,
up to 15 kilometres to the rear.
With the development and constant evolution of drones,
mine warfare has become much more dangerous
and much more complicated.
Because now they use not only standard mines,
but also a lot of improvised explosive devices
that work on magnetic sensors, tilt sensors and so on.
These are antipersonnel explosive devices.
What we got is we have a commercial drone
that is carrying around our sensors.
We have a variety of sensors.
This is one of them here. It's a ground-penetrating radar.
It allows us to see objects if they're buried.
And we can use it to distinguish
between different kinds of landmines.
For the camera imagery, we use AI,
a machine-learning program
to automatically recognize mines.
We did that on the first day here.
We went flying, did a ten-minute flight
over the minefield and we could detect
all of the mines that were on the surface.
When we tested in Toronto, the air is much more cleaner.
There is not so much dust.
But when we fly yesterday
for the first time, I saw there are so many aerosols.
And I learned that in the future
and when we want to improve this.
For example, the LIDAR part of it,
we have to automatically remove those aerosols,
so that it becomes more practical
in the real battlefield.
And that is something that's also learn as you go.
It challenges us, but it's also inspiring for thoughts
and how we can improve in the future development.
We have an invention.
It is a two-part polyurethane foam.
And what it does is, it helps block
the mechanical activation of landmines.
We're not detonating landmines.
Instead, we are trying to disable the mechanical actuator,
going after the detonators to render them inoperable.
So, I'll give you an example.
This is an anti-personnel landmine,
and if you stepped on it, you would be pushing this button.
And once you apply our solution to it,
it applies as a liquid,
it grows into a very, very strong foam.
And you can stand on this, no problem.
It will not activate the detonator.
So, this is rendered inoperable.
It is still not commercial ready.
And that's actually one of the goals for us here is
to find partners,
find someone who might be interested in licensing us,
our product in the future.
And looking for funding
to get it from TRL 4, 5,
which where it is now, to TRL 10,
which is fully commercial or ready to use on the front line.
This has been really the genius, I think, of IDEaS.
How to bring industry and the CAF together
with real defence problems.
And I do just want to say that we are especially honoured
to have the Ukrainian delegation here to inform that.
I have a very good attitude towards these events.
It's really cool that we can be invited here and we can come.
That we have seen one or two technologies that might work.
One technology might save at least one person.
That's already good.
And overall, there are projects here
that could save a thousand people.
So in this particular case,
we foresee replacing the tanks,
the crewed tanks that are used in this role right now
who are, would be very much at risk in this military scenario.
who are, would be very much at risk in this military scenario.
We foresee replacing them with autonomous uncrewed systems.
And this is going right across the whole military.
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