Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
@saivenkaat802003 (4823)
India
July 8, 2008 5:56am CST
Grief in Brian Hart, has been constructively channelized for the benefit of the entire human kind..
Brian Hart lost his 20 year old son in a military ambush in Iraq, as his vehicle was blown off.
He wrote in his blog about the shortcomings of armor the military face.. and with grit he started the company to produce robots..
He founded a company ,Black-I Robotics Inc..that has developed rugged, relatively inexpensive robotic vehicles, resembling small dune buggies, to disable car bombs and roadside explosives before they detonate in hot spots like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now Hart has received an order for 4 making four such robots, called as Land Shark, from pentagon worth $728,000.
If the pentagon, found this okay.. then the troops of US, will have new armor to fight in Iraq next year.
This is the gist of the article,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080706/ap_on_re_us/military_father_s_mission;_ylt=AsbDCxkFuNffeNqhd13Ew3qs0NUE
While the rest of the article deals with other aspects of the Land shark, the robot... its dimensions, price etc,
I am really amazed to see how could even grief be chanalised to yield productive results to the society.
2 responses
@saivenkaat802003 (4823)
• India
8 Jul 08
Yes.. good way to chanalise grief in an useful way rather than getting disheartened.. but very few will recover from the shock.. and achieve things like this..
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
8 Jul 08
It is true that grief or events which touch people deep down in thier lives often get channelised towards doing something better for society. There are some instances i remember about people opening hospitals for treatment of cancer after they have lost a loved one to this dreaded disease. There are a lot of other people who even dedicate thier lives towards a greater good after incidents like this, but not all of them get recogition, some may not even want it.
