Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2010
- www.ted.com At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and previews his work's next phase: teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.
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This guys' amazing. His idea of leveraging the available resources to be able to more effectively detect a serious threat like landmines at lower cost. It's a really great idea. I got plenty of respect for him.
I was there in the audience!
Damn this is smart. This is how we save the world: instead of asking ourselves the question, "how do we exterminate them?" we should start asking the question, "how can they help us?" Brilliant! And it definitely applies to more than just rats. It's a fun puzzle to solve too along the way. Think of something that's really pesky and try to find some way it can save peoples' lives!
The Rat Zen Master.... I love him and what he's doing. Will be making a donation to his cause asap!
Now THIS is a ted talk. A cheap, fast, and effective solution to a specific problem. Wonderful.
I met him at Skoll World Forum in Oxford in 2010, he is a very humble and at the same time amazing person (and a monk)
A most useful, yet beautifully simple, idea. Thank you Mr. Bart Weetjens. For everyone that invents a hurtful thing: there is a Bart Weetjeens waiting! That is something that I am happy to know. Human ingenuity can always and will always be used for good ends.
I love how the handler is petting the rat on the catchpole on the head while he gives the reward...almost missed that. Very sweet, shows that they are more than just a tool for a task
This is insanely beautiful thank God for people like this
the camera rat was amazing. so cute with the backpack ^^
Great concept, and it makes sense on many levels. An example of the mentality of occams razor applied. We're going to see a lot more of this type of thing the comming decade as engineers do humanitarian projects to maximize efficiency and simplicity for low cost markets.
What you are doing is brilliant! Keep up the great work!
It makes my day to see genius turned towards humanitarian effort.
Truly Inspiring
Absolutely amazing. The ingenuity of humanistic ideas and Pavlov's experiments can save many many lives.
was a HONOUR speaking to Dr Bart :) what a nice man :)
This is just unbelieveably awesome
It's videos like this that I love TED for
Fantastic my man. Great stuff.
update ... bring this guy back
Glad to see raty getting a bit of good publicity- it is interesting rats are the natural chemists in the group of organisms.
Unlike the rats who are stuck in laboratories waiting for their death sentence through overdose of chemicals.. it's so refreshing and supercool to see these rats getting rewarded for doing good work! ... these rats could be very helpful by detecting victims who are still trapped in rubbles in Japan!
Many if not all of the rodents viz, rats,mice,and rabbits used in disease research/testing labs are expensive GMO clones bred for uniformity and specificity e.g. mice created with genetically human livers/organs to study the effect of a particular disease on that specific organ. Price? $1100.00 USD each. More often than not they are "gently suffocated" before autopsy /dissection as chemical overdose would skew research results. Having suffered and died for medical advancements, I consider them heros as well.
This man is an excellent example of human ingenuity at its best. Him and his furry friends deserve a Nobel Prize.
a man with amazing ideas!
Absolutely amazing.
This is great , bravo
@beyamoth Correct. Most landmines are now either plastic or ceramic to avoid detection.
Fabulous.
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This is what TED is all about
@iheartmayotubes yes, and even more rewarding for what i see is that he is doing well for himself, and being acknowledged for his actions :)
this guy is a genius !!!
He is is the real Dutch master.
Amazing
A rat and a human can replace a microscope. Who needs technology?
Yes Truly an zen buddhist harmony with nature and life,
A Danish Zen monk helps empower communities to take back their lands using friendly, giant rats. The world is a strange and beautiful place.
I want a rat pet now! so cute and smart!
Holy Crap! this guy is a Ninja that can bust out with some Mad Pied Pipper skills.
realy nice
Trying to find out everything about pet rats any ideas on what to watch?
@GetMeThere1 I'm pretty confident the testers would be able to see if it actually picked the right one or not. Wouldn't be much point in the test otherwise.
Great people!
@hede88 I don't think so. People usually don't react until it's too late.
I knew rats were bigger than mice, but wow!
@Jotto999 : That's ok in "testing," when the testers know which is the right one. It's not ok in practice, when you're DEPENDING on the rat to tell YOU which is the right one.
That's innovative alright.
He said this is not about rats and it is about people? Why not about both? Now we are making them work for us and sometimes risk their lives, why not about both?
He's up there in a gi.
woah.... those are big rats !!! Very impressive though.
សូមអរគុណដល់ លោក Bart weetjens ដែលបានរកឃើញនូវវិធីថ្មី ក្នុងការរកគ្រាប់មីននៅក្នុងដី ដោយប្រើសត្វកណ្ដុរ ហើយបានជួយសម្រួលដល់អ្នកធ្វើការខាងកំចាត់គ្រាប់មីននៅកម្ពុជាបានយ៉ាងមានប្រសិទ្ធិភាព របស់APOPO ក្នុងនាមជាប្រជាជនកម្ពុជាម្នាក់ពិតជាអស្ចារ្យហើយអរគុណយ៉ាងធំធេងជាទីបំផុត
@suaveyobi Yeah... and it's great because Dogs are so expensive to breed/train/etc... whereas rats breed like... RATS!
wow, their a lot cuter than the big city sewer kind, i wanna pet it!
those are some big ass rats!
Wow 😯
if u guys want to know...the clothes he is wearing are made by a fashion designer who happens to like Korean and Chinese clothing...and made it for European consumers. Its loose and cool when wearing it in hot days...
@grendelee well holy shit, when i first saw this, they certainly werent diagnosing tuberculosis
I HEART TED!
@Kieku66 he is also dressed like Master splinter
This guy is Master Splinter, dressed like him too
Hamatoyoshi/Master Splinter
There is a Chinese saying that literally means ' a rat crossing the road' referring to someone that everybody is entitled to whack. We've come a long way.
@Hefalump300 because it looks cool. and you better not say anything bad about it because he's gonna use the force.
I find it Heart warming that we are opening up to adaption of animals instead extinction. Just like the crow vending machine TED Talk, we can co-exist animals into our societies, and we can train them to benefit society instead of seeing them as a pest.
This guy and the guy who trains crows should get together.
@MrStartingGun isn't it amazing? :D
Is that a rat or a baby kangaroo?!?!
The Rat King from Ninja Turtles comes to mind.
i was thinking about donating my rats to this, lol
@Plecebo1996 because not all land mines are not made out of metal....
HOLY SHIIT
I always knew rats were badass. Just look Master Splinter. He trained the Ninja Turtles.
Is he going to a karate class next?
So, what is the rodent high score in minesweeper?
@toggsuk
How did you think they became so successful in nature? ^^
Cute!
why is a rat better than a metal detecotor?
Animals trained to use their superior senses to save us from ourselves faster and more accurately than our own technology is Dr. Doolittle inspired creative problem solving. If only humans could be trained as quickly not to make war/landmines by finding and utilizing our own super senses (rationality?) to creatively solve disagreements & common problems.
screw technology, rats are the way to go
Rat tatata "THE RAT" Rat tatata
@GetMeThere1 But then the rats will learn to go for the real one all the time, in testing. As long as it's reinforced that they get their reward when they find the item, I don't see it as very likely that they'd do that.
I wonder what happen to do rats that are incapable of the task
Make that intro less loud please!
If the Rats can find mines ,then they can find 'shoebombs' and "suitcase bombs"AND the TSA can have the family come to work with them.
I wonder if the rats ever learn they can cheat--and signal a find just to get a reward.
Awesome!
What's up with the two rat haters who didn't like this video?
im stoned
hahaha could you imagine going to an airport and you get busted for drugs becasue a rat sniff you out. haha that would suck. maybe thats where the term "he's a rat" came from.
@Kieku66 HAHA
@Esrhan Who has the resources? For decades people have been killed and maimed by land mines and unexploded ordnance. The fact that rich tend to be the ones who plant the mines or drop the bombs, its the poor who have to live with the consequences. The US wouldn't do it. Spending money on the poor in this way would amount to socialism, they couldn't stomach cleaning up their own mess. The sane thing would be to ban land mines, but there's too much money to be made in selling them.
@Hefalump300 lol
@dootu fighting wars for the United Corporations of America
SECOND! and its looking like a good speak even tho imonly 2 mins in
gate vijeo..chanks
glad im not a rat O.o
@iheartmayotubes Not going to happen though.
whats this guy wearing??? LOL
@GetMeThere1 They have to be trained and certified first, if they start failing early on they stop getting rewarded. What do you do with a failed rat though? Release it to the wild? Rehome it? Put it down? There'll be animal shelters filled with cheating rats...
The cheap solution: Get 2000 rats, release them in a minefield, grab popcorn. Hell, you could probably even televise it! I kid, I kid, interesting stuff.
Well I LOVE Rats so for me it's sort of about RATS. Sorry, people are okay too.
His it me or cats better start doing something rather then look cute
@blahblabahl "The normal lifespan of rats ranges from two to five years, and is typically three years." -Wikipedia