Eurosatory 2026: Pearson Engineering to send AI mine detecting systems into Ukraine
Threat-Sense provides AI-processed information to devices and displays. (Photo: Pearson Engineering)
Pearson Engineering’s Threat-Sense system is designed to use imaging from drones to geolocate scattered mines and support uncrewed systems in defeating the threats.
Pearson Engineering is to provide Ukraine with two systems of Threat-Sense, the company’s AI-based software and unit which detects, identifies and geolocates surface-laid explosive threats using vision from uncrewed and crewed platforms.
Threat-Sense is a new business for Pearson Engineering which, historically and in recent business, has been more focused on combat engineering capabilities for armoured vehicles, although it has signed agreements with vehicle and uncrewed ground vehicle (UGV) manufacturers.
The fully passive autonomous system assesses a visual input against a pre-programmed and what the company describes as a highly trainable threat library and highlights any threat that is detected on
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