are injured or killed every year. It may not shock you to learn that Voliro (which has, in the past, made some really weird flying robots) is a startup with its roots in the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich, the same place where the mine-detecting drone research is taking place. Whether it’s ultimately field-useful or not will require some further investigation, but because the platform itself is commercial off-the-shelf hardware, there’s a bit more room for optimism than there otherwise might be